Mr. Gordon Jeyes:

I never do the lotto. However, I do wish to participate fully in the debate on how hard-won taxpayers’ money is spent and making sure a fair share of it is spent for the most vulnerable. What is needed and expected of us now is quantifiable. We need more next year and probably for several years. In addition, we have recently had discussions with IMPACT about family support measures and how we could consider caseloads if social workers were to be better resourced as leaders with administrative and para-professional support services. Within the same resource cake we could engage in a re-design. In Ireland it is very tightly managed in terms of regulation and there must be a social worker for every case.