Employment Equality Amendment Bill
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asks when the Bill removing religious institutions’ State-funded exemption to discriminate will reach the Dáil. The Taoiseach initially cannot provide a date and later confirms it has completed Second Stage but remains in Seanad Committee Stage.
I would like to know when the Employment Equality (Amendment)(No.2) Bill 2013 which has passed Second Stage in the Seanad will appear before this House. The Bill proposes to remove the right of State-funded religious institutions to discriminate against individuals whom they consider undermine their ethos, including members of the LGBT community.
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It has been passed by the Seanad on Second Stage.
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Has it gone completely through the Seanad? I will ask the Whip to let the Deputy know when it will be brought before this House.
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That old Seanad is doing a fine job unknown to the Taoiseach.
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I am informed that the Bill has yet to pass through Committee Stage in the Seanad. It has finished Second Stage. They do things more quickly over there.
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More quickly than the Taoiseach gives them credit for.