My Department is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for persons with disabilities and to the policies that apply across the Civil Service generally with regard to the code of practice for the employment of people with disabilities in the Civil Service.
The Office of the Civil Service and Local Appointments Commissioners is responsible for the recruitment of personnel into the Civil Service and assigns personnel to individual Departments and offices, including my Department. A limited number of appointments are filled directly by my Department, including those of services officer, services attendant, night-watchman and cleaner. In addition, a number of civilians are employed with the Defence Forces at military barracks and are mainly engaged in building work and maintenance and on clerical, domestic and other duties. The percentage of civil servants with a disability employed in the Department is currently 4.1% and the percentage of civilians employed by the Department with the Defence Forces throughout the country is currently 2.3%.