Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 148: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the percentage of total employment under the Health Service Executive of persons who have employed persons suffering from disability. [8124/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The latest available information for the employment by health boards of persons with a disability is for 31 December 2003. Data in respect of the end 2004 position are currently being compiled.

The number of employed persons in each health board with a disability at end-2003 is set out in the following table. For the purpose of this exercise the definition of disability is as defined by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in the compilation of its statistics for the 3% target for the employment of people with disabilities in the public service. The return from the ERHA was incomplete due to methodological difficulties in compiling the data for thatregion.