Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is true. However, the profession does not have different subsets. It is not that someone is a social care worker in one of those areas. I hear the Deputy and I do not disagree with some of the positions she has taken. I have had the same conversation with the officials. However, the view is that social care is single regulated profession. Therefore, if a person has sufficient experience in the view of CORU, and in the view of the person’s employer under the CORU guidelines, that person can be on the professional register. Even though that person may never have worked in disability services and will now work in disability services, that person would not have the modules that a college-trained social care worker had in those disability areas.