Cork City’s Local Economic and Community Plan 2024 - 2029
Our Commitment to the Public Sector Duty
Our commitment can also be seen in the range of actions in this plan targeting parts of our communities that have missed socio-economic opportunity. We did this by focusing on each of the nine grounds of discrimination as outlined in Ireland’s Equality Legislation 2 . Many of the LECP actions are committed to eliminating discrimination while promoting equality of opportunity and treatment. We are committed to doing this for our staff and for the people who use our services. We are also committed to protecting the human rights of staff and the service users. These aims are shared by the Members of the LCDC.
Cork City Council has been committed to putting the Public Sector Duty in place from early on in its inception when in 2017 we nominated our organisation to be the urban local authority for the IHREC pilot project. Since then, a working group from across our organisation has been embedding the Public Sector Duty into our:
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People strategy (this is our strategy for staff)
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Corporate planning process
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Organisational activities and plans
This working group has been led by our People and Organisation Development Directorate. Our aim is that human rights and equality matters evolve from a statutory duty on public bodies to being an integral part of our organisational culture –
‘the way we do things around here’.
In preparing this LECP we have been committed to applying and embedding the Public Sector Duty and demonstrate policymaking that leaves no one behind.
You can see this in our public consultation process where we:
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Used inclusive community engagement principles ,
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Strove to seek out, encourage and listen to seldom heard voices
Read Chapter 5.6 on the Public Consultation for more information.
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