3030. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if academic research commissioned by her Department with UCD on the topic of socio-economic discrimination in Ireland was completed; if there is a draft report; if so, her plans to publish the draft report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58511/26]

2848. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide details on when a report commissioned by her Department (details supplied) into adding socio-economic grounds in equality legislation was completed; the reason it has not been published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56485/26]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 3030 and 2848 together.

In November 2019, the then Department of Justice and Equality contracted with UCD to produce research on the question of adding a discriminatory ground of socio-economic status to the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015 and the Equal Status Acts 2000-2015.

Department records indicate that the project was disrupted during the COVID-19 pandemic and a final report has not been produced.