Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Fred McBride:

Yes, we want to be much more self-sufficient in how we deal with some of these matters. The gaps the Deputy refers to are more to do with speed. The national recruitment service system was simply not quick enough for us. We were unable to recruit social workers quickly enough to fill the gaps and now we have developed some of our own capacity to do that.