Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 7 July 2022
140. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the national action plan against racism will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36738/22]
View answerThe Programme for Government commits to publishing a National Action Plan Against Racism. As the Deputy is aware, the independent Anti-Racism Committee was established by Government in 2020 to provide a draft anti-racism strategy, containing a clear action plan, supported in their work by officials from my Department.
I received on 27 June 2022, a National Action Plan Against Racism, formally submitted to me by the Chair of the Anti-Racism Committee, which the Committee prepared in accordance with its Terms of Reference.
The plan follows the committee’s Interim Report, which I published in 2021, and which sets out the overall approach, the guiding principles and understandings of racism the committee employed in developing the plan. The committee consulted widely and received a large number of submissions.
I intend to bring this plan to Government following the summer recess and, subject to the agreement of the Government, publish it.
