Welcome to Waterways Ireland e-Consulation

Welcome to online the consultation on the process of developing and screening of policies internally for equality and the screening of policies for future Equality Impact Assessment. This website gives you an opportunity to make suggestions, comments, and to discuss your views along with other contributors.

Waterways Ireland seeks the views of consultees in relation to:

• The Internal Screening Process developed and implemented by Waterways Ireland to ensure new policies are equality proofed as they are developed.
• Policies developed and internally screened to date.
• The policies Waterways Ireland proposes to subject to an Equality Impact Assessment in the future.
• Timetable for proposed Equality Impact Assessments.

As a new organisation, developing new policies, Waterways Ireland's approach has been to seek to mainstream consideration of equality in policy development. To do this we are implementing an Internal Screening Process to identify and where possible remove any adverse equality impacts from new policies whilst these are being developed.

We are inviting feedback on the process developed. In addition, we have listed together all policies developed, under development or to be developed in the future and carried out a screening exercise to determine the potential impact on equality. The recommendations that emerged from completion of this Screening Process identified a small number of Waterways Ireland's policies as having a moderate impact on social need, effect on people's lives, or effect on economic, social or human rights. The majority of its policies were deemed as potentially having a low impact on equality of opportunity.