One of the things we tend to forget when we are looking at the public service—and I'm always looking for improvements—is how well regarded we are abroad. We have a very fine public service and can be very proud of it.
This is the second year I have seen and remarked on this. We have four employment equity groups and we've done quite well with three, but the fourth—persons with disability—we haven't.
I think we have to take lessons from how we've done things with the other groups, and that means we have to start a lot of discussions about this. My staff has done a literature review and looked at the experience of others. We do have to make a more concerted effort to reach out to them through job fairs and other special efforts, because not only are we not hiring them but they're also not applying in the proportions that we would like to see.