Paul Lawless (Mayo, Aontú)
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221. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of individuals with disabilities currently in employment in County Mayo. [66628/25]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is responsible for the measurement of employment and unemployment in the State and questions in relation to the numbers of persons in employment should be directed to that office. The CSO have advised officials in my Department that data in respect of the number of persons with a disability in employment will be available by NUTS region in the coming weeks. Eurostat data based on the Labour Force Survey indicates that 181,700 persons with a disability were in employment across Ireland in 2024, an increase from 177,500 persons in 2022.

The Government is committed to supporting disabled people into work. The Programme for Government commits to expanding successful programmes like Work and Access and to work with employers and across Government to improve employment levels of disabled people.

In addition, the Government recently launched the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030. This strategy prioritises a cross-government approach and my Department, alongside the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment will lead the employment pillar, focused on improving access to the workplace for all disabled people.