Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 January 2018
1668. Deputy Margaret Murphy O'Mahony asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the proportion of employees in her Department or in organisations under its remit registered as disabled. [1856/18]
View answerPart 5 of the Disability Act 2005 sets out the legal obligations of public service bodies to promote and support the employment of people with disabilities, comply with any statutory Code of Practice, meet a target of 3% of employees with disabilities and report every year on achievement of these obligations. The National Disability Authority (NDA) reports on compliance with the 3% target.
The figures for 2017 are not yet available. These figures are required to be provided to the NDA by the end of March 2018.
The last figures available on the proportion of employees who had disclosed a disability and registered disabled in my Department, as reported to the NDA for 2016, was 5.1%.
These figures were based on a Staff Census taken at end of 2016 and based on a voluntarily declaration of disability status by all new employees joining the Department. The nature of the disability is not disclosed.
In relation to the three agencies under the aegis of my Department, the last figures available on the proportion of employees registered disabled, as reported to the NDA for 2016, were:
- Citizens Information Board - 9.64%,
- Office of the Pensions Ombudsman - 16.67%, and
- Pensions Authority - 3.92%.
