Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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209. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding allocated to the reasonable accommodation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12146/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The reasonable accommodation fund for the employment of people with disabilities assists employers to take appropriate measures to enable a person with a disability/impairment to have access to employment by providing a range of grants. These grants and supports include:

- the workplace equipment and adaptation grant,

- the personal reader grant,

- the job interview interpreter grant, and

- the employee retention grant.

The reasonable accommodation fund is a demand-led scheme in that the applicant applies directly to DSP for these grants, and therefore, there is no specified funding level allocated to this scheme.