Mr. Bernard Gloster:

The problem is "adequate" is probably a value judgement. To be fair to the Irish Association of Social Workers and others, there is good supervision given. The pressure, the demands, and the volume of the work does interfere with that and interferes with the availability of the time we might desirably want to give to that. Our chief social worker and his team are working on and have built additional measures to try to enhance supports, especially for people in the first two years of employment. It is a continuously improving piece. To be fair to young social workers or their supervisors, I would not want to say that by any means we could be complacent about it.