Minister is complacent on the realities of racism [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 18 January 2010
INTEGRATION Minister John Curran’s apparent complacency about the realities of life for those members of Irish society (whether "non-national" or otherwise) who experience racism and discrimination here is worrying.
The minister dismisses the results of a major survey designed by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights to provide data that can be used to inform evidence-based policies (the EU Minorities and Discrimination Survey – EU-MIDIS) with the somewhat mystifying remark that "the methodology used in Ireland for the survey was different to that used in other countries and, more importantly, was only carried out in Dublin".
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