Currently, the workplace relations commission deal with all discrimination cases relating to customers except in the case of pubs and hotels.

If a person has been refused entry to a pub or nightclub for discriminatory reasons they must take the case to the district court.

Sinead Gibney, Chief Commissioner, IHREC and Adrian Cummins, CEO, Restaurants Association of Ireland joined The Last Word to discuss.

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