Mr. Bernard Gloster:

To be fair to the Deputy, I do not want to mislead him, so in the coming days I will give an exact breakdown in writing of the Tusla areas and the social workers they have. The point was made by Ms Duggan that we also have social workers who are on the payroll but we have a high volume of maternity leave. When we add this to the vacancies, I have no doubt this is having an impact in Dublin. Equally, of the new posts we have funding for this year, which is in excess of 100 jobs, the majority of those posts were assigned to Dublin mid-Leinster and Dublin north-east. This covers the Dublin city areas referred to by the Deputy.