DEC-S2002-116, DEC-S2002-117

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF EQUALITY INVESTIGATIONS

Equal Status Act 2000
EQUALITY OFFICER'S DECISION NOs: DEC-S2002- 116/117

Two Complainants
V
A Public House

Date of Issue 23/10/2002

Key words: Equal Status Act 2000 - Direct discrimination, section 3(1)(a) - Membership of the Traveller community, section 3(2)(i) - Supply of goods and services, section 5(1) - Refusal of admission to pub - risk of disorderly behaviour, section 15 (1) - Non-attendance of complainants at Hearing

This dispute concerns a complaint by Mr and Mrs A that they were discriminated against, contrary to the Equal Status Act 2000, by the management of a pub in Killarney. The complainants maintain that they were discriminated against on the Traveller community ground in terms of sections 3(1) and 3(2)(i) of the Equal Status Act 2000 in not being provided with a service which is generally available to the public contrary to Section 5(1) of the Act. The complainants state that they were refused admission to the pub on 16 December 2000 on the grounds of their membership of the Traveller community.

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