Draft Fair Employment (Monitoring) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Part of the debate – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 4:30 pm on 1 July 2002.

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Photo of David Ford David Ford Alliance 4:30, 1 July 2002

I was once required to fill in a monitoring form for a public appointment that gave the options as something described as "the Protestant community", "the Catholic community" or "neither" with the caveat, "Do not use the last one because we will find out what you are anyway" — I paraphrase, but that was the implicit direction. Can the junior Minister confirm that it is acceptable that those who do not wish to be categorised may in all circumstances ask to be regarded as "other"?