Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

The social workers are offered permanent employment with Tusla. Tusla is doing its best to try to hold on to as many of these graduate entrants as it can. Tusla has focused lot of attention, through its new people strategy, on the retention effort to ensure that supports are in place for young graduate social workers who come into the organisation, and who are involved in what is very challenging work, it must be said. It is difficult and challenging work. That can be a factor in retention.