Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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122. To ask the Taoiseach the number of people with disabilities in Ireland who were deemed to be self-employed in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022; the number who had employees; and the number who had no employees, in tabular form. [28942/23]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The exact information requested by the Deputy is not available.

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a household survey which provides quarterly statistics on employment and unemployment and is the official source of labour market estimates in the State. The classification of employment status in LFS results is determined according to ILO (International Labour Organisation) concepts and definitions.

A question on disability status (whether a person has a long-standing health problem that limits the activities that they perform) was asked of LFS respondents in each year between 2019 and 2022. There was no question on disability status in 2018. It is important to note that the 2022 question format (‘Have you been limited in activities people usually do, because of a health problem?’) was different to the question format in years 2019-2021 (‘Do you have any of the following long‐lasting conditions or difficulties?) and the results should not be directly compared.

The tables below contain figures for numbers of persons classified as having a disability according to the specification above whose labour market status was classified as self-employed, with a breakdown between those persons with paid employees and those without.

Table 1 Self-employed persons with a disability aged 15-89 years, 2018-2021

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Table 2 Self-employed persons with a disability aged 15-89 years, 2022

Source: Labour Force Survey (LFS), Central Statistics Office, Ireland.

Data may be subject to future revision.

Parentheses [ ] indicate where there are 30-49 persons in a cell, estimates are considered to have a wider margin of error and should be treated with caution.

2022 should not be directly compared with years 2019-2021 as the question format changed (2019-2021: Do you have any of the following long‐lasting conditions or difficulties; 2022: Have you been limited in activities people usually do, because of a health problem?)