The Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty (the Duty) is contained  in Section 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Act 2014. 

The Duty places a statutory obligation on Roscommon County Council to have regard  to the need to eliminate discrimination, promote equality of opportunity and protect the  human rights of our staff, customers, service users and everyone affected by our policies  and plans.

As part of our plan making process, our local authority has conducted an assessment of our  responsibilities under this Duty, evaluating the human rights and equality issues relevant to  our functions and purpose. We identified specific actions that our organisation is currently  implementing or intends to take to address these issues. These human rights duty actions  are integrated into the ‘supporting strategy and activities’ outlined in our Corporate Plan 2024-2029. The ongoing  implementation of the Duty, across all of our functions will underpin and drive a rolling  assessment of equality and human rights issues across the various units of the Council.  This, in turn, will enable the development of operational procedures to incorporate actions  adequate to address the equality and human rights issues assessed.

We will monitor and  report on the progress made in addressing the identified issues through our Annual Report.

Roscommon County Council has conducted an assessment of the human rights and equality issues we believe to be relevant to our organisations functions and purpose. We have put in place policies, plans and actions to address these.  These are set out in Appendix 4 of our Corporate Plan 2024-2029.