Mr. Francis Chance:

The area of recruitment and the recruitment of specific professionals is a real challenge within our health service as well as within Tusla in terms of social workers. At third level, we need to be looking at what our workforce requirements are in the long term and at investing in additional training places so that we have a home-grown cohort of child health professionals and child well-being professionals coming on stream. We also need to be looking at more creative ways of supporting and encouraging professionals to come from elsewhere to work within our children's services.