Written answers

Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

Departmental Staff

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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578. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the absolute and relative number of persons with disabilities employed by his Department in each of the years 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020; if these persons are in full-time or part-time roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4521/21]

Photo of Roderic O'GormanRoderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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Part 5 of the Disability Act 2005 sets out the legal obligations of public service bodies to meet a target of 3% of employees with disabilities. Under the Act, the National Disability Authority (NDA) has the statutory role to report, on an annual basis, on compliance with the 3% target.

The Department reports to the monitoring committee in DPER on its compliance as at the 31st December of each year

Year Number of staff who declared a disability Number of staff with a disability as a percentage of overall staff numbers Full-time Availing of a work sharing Pattern 6 month placement from the Willing, Able and Mentoring Programme (WAM) run by Ahead for placement of graduates with disabilities
2015 8 5% 6 1 1
2016 12 6.23% 10 1 1
2017 13 5.37% 11 1 1
2018 14 5.05% 13 1 0
2019 15 5.23% 14 1 0

The information for 2020 has not been collated and finalised for the monitoring committee at this time.

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