Ms Margaret McCabe:

Some 7% of the people in our organisation have declared disabilities. As Ms Cahill said, however, there are many people who do not declare their disabilities. When they carry out our internal surveys, we sometimes discover that more people will declare as time goes on.

Regarding accessibility, we have a disability liaison officer on the staff who looks after anybody who has a disability or particular needs. It is fair to say that they are well looked after. We have whatever is necessary because we have had people with disabilities on our staff for many years. Obviously, we recruit as well so we have to be very well trained up in how we treat people and on what people need.

In the context of our website, four areas were identified last year. Each year there is something new identified but we covered off all those areas and they have all been addressed through that audit I mentioned. It brought up some areas as well and they were covered.

What are we doing as an organisation to increase the percentage of people applying? We are very conscious that people do not declare when they apply that they have a disability because it may well be a hidden disability. However, people are getting better at that now and are becoming more comfortable saying that they have a disability. From our point of view and from looking at our staff, we think it is probably three to four times higher than our declared figure. We have a very good relationship with all the disability support organisations who promote us as well, and we are trying to encourage people to apply and take that chance. We have set targets in our own corporate strategy, NUA26, to increase by 20% the numbers applying and being assigned under the whole EDI area, which includes disability. Is that all of the questions answered? I thank the committee.