Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 493: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of persons currently employed in her Department whose status has changed to that of disabled since the commencement of their employment with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36556/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department compiles statistics on the number of officers employed who have a disability using two sources. These are officers whose initial recruitment was through a special competition confined to persons with a disability, and officers who request special accommodation/ equipment or consideration in connection with a disability.

With regard to this second category my Department does not, as a matter of course, make enquiries regarding the date of acquisition of the relevant disability. In these circumstances I am not in a position to provide the information requested by the Deputy.