Patrick Costello
Question:250. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the Public Appointments Service continues to advertise posts that include a requirement that the applicant must be a non-EEA citizen who is a spouse or child of an EEA or Swiss citizen and have a stamp 4 visa, given that there is a requirement under law not to discriminate on the civil status ground, and that many non-EEA citizens can be resident in Ireland for many years in relationships with EEA citizens and on a stamp 4 and do not intend to marry and that Section 36(1) and (2) of the Employment Equality Act 1998 only permits restrictions from employment in the civil and public service on the grounds of residence, citizenship or proficiency in the Irish language and makes no mention of civil status being an allowable discriminatory ground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57267/22]
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