Public Sector Equality & Human Rights Duty

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council recognises the need to eliminate discrimination, protect human rights and promote equality of opportunity through the implementation of the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty.

This commitment is now underpinned by a legal obligation, the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty, provided for in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Act 2014.

Section 42 of the 2014 Act requires public bodies to have regard to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality, and protect human rights for staff, service users and policy beneficiaries across all their functions. Specifically, public bodies are required to implement three steps:

• Assess: establish those issues that face the identified groups for the Duty that have a relevance for the functions of dlr
• Address: check plans and policies at final draft or review stage to establish what actions are being taken to address these issues and what further actions need to be included for an adequate and appropriate response to these issues.
• Report: report annually on progress made on implementing the Duty and addressing the issues identified.

We have prepared a framework strategy for implementation of our Public Sector Duty which is referenced in Goal 7 (page 45) of our Corporate Plan 2020-2024