Mr. Cormac Quinlan:

I believe the social workers we have are experts at what they do. We are using other services - as was indicated in the statement - such as Cúnamh, which also does some information tracing for us. Social work does bring a level of expertise to this. We need to overcome the image of a social worker that the Senator described. That is a task for Tusla in terms of adoption, but equally in terms of child protection and welfare where we have a piece of work to do. I hope that through this we will be afforded the opportunity to do that and will be able to show success in that regard.