Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 March 2018
251. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of persons employed in his Department who have a disability expressed in whole-time equivalent terms and in head count terms; and the way in which the number of persons with disabilities employed compares with national targets. [14447/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport is subject to specific legal obligations under the Disability Act 2005. Part 5 of the Act sets out a requirement for public service bodies to meet a target of 3% of employees with disabilities each year.
Staff in the Department provide information relating to disabilities on a voluntary disclosure basis and do not provide details as to whether or not they are registered disabled with the relevant representative disability organisation/agency.
In the most recent report on the matter submitted by my Department to the National Disability Authority in March 2018, there were 19 full-time employees, with a disclosed disability as at 31st December 2017, employed by my Department. In whole time equivalent terms this represented 3.9% of the total workforce. In terms of actual head count this represented 3.6% of the total workforce.
