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Submissions to the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality

Public Consultation

A public call for submissions opened on 29 January 2020 with a closing date of 6 March 2020. Respondents had the option of responding to a structured online questionnaire or alternatively submitting a response by email or by post using their own preferred style and structure.

The final question in the questionnaire asked respondents ‘In which area do you think gender inequality matters most?’ See below the overall results1 of the question. Individual responses to this question are published with submissions below.

The above chart is based on the 109 respondents that answered this question

Submissions Received

The Assembly launched a public call for submissions and 246 published responses were received. The submissions were published for a period of time during the course of the Citizens’ Assembly, were taken into consideration in the development of the agenda for Assembly weekends and as part of the Citizens’ deliberations. As well as being available online to all members of the Assembly and interested parties, an independent researcher, Dr. Pauline Cullen of Maynooth University, was engaged to analyse and summarise the submissions. During the course of each meeting, Dr. Cullen gave a summary of the views expressed in the submissions on the topics being addressed during that particular weekend.

The Citizens’ Assembly was guided by GDPR principles in publishing the submissions. In cases where an individual made a submission containing details of their personal experience and requested that their identity be protected, that submission was published under ‘Name with Secretariat’. The questionnaire provided an option to request anonymous publication for those under 18. The Secretariat did not have the ability to validate the age of the submitter, so this had been taken at face value. The Secretariat also reserved the right to redact potentially defamatory, inappropriate or explicit content and personal information. Generally where individuals submitted more than one response, all contributions were published under one reference number.

In line with GDPR principles, submissions were subsequently unpublished from this site, and are no long accessible.