Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 20 March 2024
1102. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if it is his intention to provide a legal basis for nonbinary gender recognition; and if so, to provide an update on work carried out within his Department to date on the matter. [11736/24]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Programme for Government – Our Shared Future - contains a commitment to complete the work of the interdepartmental group tasked with examining legal recognition of non-binary people. This is in line with the report by the Review Group on the Review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 submitted to the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in 2018 and the subsequent Report to the Oireachtas under Section 7 of the Act, issued by that Department in 2019.
The Department of Social Protection holds policy responsibility for the Gender Recognition Act 2015. Issues relating to the legal basis for gender recognition should be directed to that Department.
