Mr. Mike Allen:

We had very useful discussions on child support workers with the Minister, Deputy Zappone, when she came to office. As a result, additional staff posts were created by Tusla but that was over two years ago. At present we are in discussion with the people in her Department and have said that we need to go further than that because as the problem gets bigger one needs more staff to deal with it, unfortunately. As far as I am aware, there are no child support workers working with homeless families outside of Dublin.