AQO 2982/17-22

Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford

Tabled Date: 13/01/2022
Answered On Date: 01/02/2022
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the review of revoking Article 71 of the Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.

Answer:

We are committed to taking forward a review of this provision.

Our officials have had some preliminary engagement with the Department of Education, as any such review must be taken forward collaboratively with the education sector. That review, as it progresses, will include consideration of the removal of the exception.