Sinéad Gibney
Question:490. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport whether he will advocate for Ireland to become a signatory to the International Convention against Apartheid in Sports. [66253/25]
View answerTuesday, 25 November 2025
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Ireland has not signed the 1985 UN international Convention against Apartheid in Sports but did sign in 1968 the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
Under this Convention, an onus is placed on Ireland ‘to pursue by all appropriate means and without delay a policy of eliminating racial discrimination in all its forms and promoting understanding among all races’.
Following the enactment of the Employment Equality Act 1998 and the Equal Status Act 2000, the Convention was ratified by Dáil resolution in December 2000 and entered in to force in January 2001. In the light of the above there are no plans to pursue ratification of the convention referred to in the question.