Since the Irish Human Rights and Equality Act did not enter into force until 2014, no meaningful data on the adherence to public duties are yet available. Several publications by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) clearly mention that the data needs to be improved in order to bring about significant changes and improvements in the status quo and to remedy concrete faults. However, there is no clear provision in Irish legislation regarding the collection of equality data. Although Article 42 of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Act provides that public authorities are subject to a proactive duty or responsibility, there is no need for specific figures to confirm that the relevant authority is complying with its duty. In order to check whether the authorities adhere to the equality duty, the Commission may review strategic plans or review annual reports.

The Commission carries out information campaigns, devises tools for the implementation of the duties and initiates model projects dealing with specific topics or political issues in the context of equality efforts.

As the law is still new and the Commission has only recently begun work, the focus of the last annual report of the Equality Commission is on the implementation of public equality duties and the collection of equality data within the Commission itself. The measures that have been taken and the need for improvement can be deduced, which the Commission recommends to other authorities as necessary steps towards implementing the duty. For example, a key step in the implementation of equality is the consultation with employers, managers, trade unions, individuals and communities to identify where better support, information, data, etc. are needed and how the Commission can best empower stakeholders in the process of complying with the duty. The Commission has also developed a set of key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the impact of their work between 2016 and 2018. All these measures must be implemented by public authorities and companies (often on a smaller scale) and the results must be regularly submitted to the Commission, which checks the compliance with the duty. In the course of its work, the Commission has repeatedly sought joint monitoring in cooperation with other institutions in order to develop more complex solutions and carry out a more detailed search.