Mr. Eoin Barry:

While not commenting on specific cases, there are some parts of the country where there might not be appropriate discipline-specific line management structures in place. We would really strongly advocate that all of the professionals on a multidisciplinary team would have their own management structure within their discipline. We would also strongly advocate for high-quality supervision. One of the issues we have heard our colleagues from the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland talk about a lot is recruitment and retention. One of the best ways to keep staff once they start working is to support them. The best way to do that is through the provision of high-quality supervision. The same lesson was learned in Tusla where new staff got more supervision than other social workers. We would advocate for a similar approach, with increased supervision during the first year or so of practice-----