Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This leads me to the working conditions of social workers. We are at a stage where someone goes into social work because they have a passion and an interest, and that is fostered in the education system as well. They then get out in the field and they know they are in an environment where perhaps they are working with the three out of four, knowing there is a child out there who is not getting allocated. If that is the case, they are working to their maximum capacity. We know the attrition rate is very high and that a child can go through many social workers in a period. The obvious answer to what I am about to ask is: recruit more people. How would we improve the working conditions? Improved working conditions would surely also help retain those the witnesses go to such lengths to try to attract. What could be done to increase there?