Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency

9:30 am

Ms Clare Murphy:

We are funded to get to the ideal but we have people opposite social work posts. As Ms Duggan said, in an ideal world there would be a social worker allocated to a case. Now, there might be a childcare worker working on some of the caseload but not all of it. In an ideal world, we would create 200 new social work posts. That is what we need in the system to be-----

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