Gender Pay Reporting Portal on the Way!
18th March 2025
Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Norma Foley T.D., recently announced that a new gender pay reporting portal for 6,000 public and private sector organisations will be launched in the autumn.
The online portal will, for the first time, bring reports from all private and public sector organisations together instead of having them published on individual websites. The portal will help draw attention to the importance of gender pay gap reporting, and will be fully searchable by members of the public.
This year will also see the extension of the legal obligation to report on the gender pay gap to every organisation in Ireland with over 50 employees. The Department of Children estimates that a total of 6,000 organisations will be required to report their gender pay data to the new portal.
Speaking recently, as Minister with responsibility for gender equality, Minister Foley said: “The Programme for Government outlines the vision of this Government for the rights of women and girls. The gender pay gap in Ireland in 2022 was 9.6%, meaning that the average man earned 9.6% more than the average woman. The new gender pay gap portal will help to raise awareness of the gender pay gap among employers and the public.”
The most recent release of data from Growing Up in Ireland, which follows the progress of children born from 1998 onwards, has made clear that the gender pay gap continues to affect young women. One of the starkest figures emerging is that of the median weekly earnings, with women earning less than men, even with comparable education levels. Women with a degree or higher earned €28 less per week than men, and women with a higher cert or less earned €103 less than the men with an equivalent level of education.
Amongst the group of women in the Growing Up in Ireland Study who were born in 1998 and are now 25 years old, 88% of them were concerned about gender inequality compared to 66% of men.
Minister Foley commented,
“A powerful society is a fair and equal society. There has been progress made since 2007 when the gender pay gap in Ireland was 17.3% but much more remains to be done.
Women are capable, committed and talented contributors to the workforce. Their levels of pay should reflect this.”
Updated regulations will be put in place to require organisations to report their data via the new gender pay gap portal in time for this year’s deadline of the end of November. They can also upload their gender pay gap reports with more information on their own websites if they wish.
Minister Foley will also launch the next National Strategy for Women and Girls this year, placing the rights of women and girls at the heart of Government action.
“Women and girls in Ireland should be seen and heard across all areas of society – in government departments, boardrooms and indeed cabinet rooms.
I am committed as Minister for Equality to identifying and rooting out whatever impediments that stand in the way of Irish women and girls in achieving their full potential.”
In designing and developing this new National Strategy for Women and Girls strategy, the Department has carried out a public consultation process. This includes the first-ever National Youth Assembly on Gender Equality to ensure that the strategy reflects the priorities of women and girls in a modern, and ever-changing Irish society.
Pictured recently at the London St. Patrick’s Day Parade – Minister for Children, Disability and Equality Norma Foley with the two Grand Marshalls, Katie-George Dunlevy and Kellie Harrington.
