Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Fred McBride:

In response to Deputy Neville's question on funding and the recruitment process, for the past two years we have had significant funding investment into the agency and our challenge now is to try to recruit sufficient numbers in line with the investment. That has been challenging, but as I said in my presentation in the first quarter this year, we are recruiting significantly more people than have been leaving the service. That is probably the case for the first time. I can give the Deputy figures in that regard if he wishes.

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