Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 25 October 2023
119. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Social Protection if her Department, or any body under the aegis of her Department, has facilitated in-person or remote briefings on any issue from organisations (details supplied) from 2021 to date; if so, the topic discussed; the fees paid to the organisations for these briefings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46759/23]
View answerThere have been two engagements between officials in my Department, including the General Register Office, and TENI since 2021.
The first engagement took place in TENI head office in June 2022 and was in relation to the production by the General Register Office of an information booklet on the application and legal process involved in acquiring a gender recognition certificate as set out in recommendations 10A and 10B of the Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015. There was no fee for this meeting.
The second engagement discussed the experience of living as a non-binary person for a Project Leadership Team established under the Department's Engagement and Innovation Programme. The project was established in accordance with recommendation 2C of the Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 and involved a number of individual phone conversations and an online talk to the group in February 2023 from the education officer in TENI. There was no fee for this engagement.
I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
