Minister for Social Protection Dara Calleary was in no doubt about the message he wanted to convey. “I’m saying to every business reading The Currency, don’t think about this, do it,” the minister said. His call to action was in relation to getting more disabled people into the workforce. To date, Ireland has been behind the curve.  The country has one of the lowest rates of employment of disabled people in the EU. The disability gap in Ireland – the gap between the employment rate of people with a disability compared to the rate for those without – is the…

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