Implementation of disabled-worker employment target
Keating challenged whether the 3% target was being implemented. Fitzgerald said an interdepartmental committee was working with the NRB, that disabled people were already employed, and that preparations were under way; the exchange ended in disagreement over the programme’s progress.
The position is that we set a target of 3 per cent by 1983 and an inter-Departmental committee is at work in co-operation with the NRB who have reported to them.
Comment on this
Can I interpret that that as of today there need not necessarily be and probably is not one person in this category employed in any Department, because the Minister is waiting for the results of yet another study?
Comment on this
No, this is an extension. The programme is the setting of a target by a specific date.
Comment on this
The preparations are done. The Deputy should be more aware of what is happening here.