Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla
Mr. Pat Smyth:
Tusla welcomed those recommendations. They were certainly in line with the areas where we see developments need to be made. We have worked as a management team with the EAG very proactively in recent months. This has been a challenging process because it is another oversight piece on top of what goes on in daily business. Ultimately, it has been positive in allowing us to focus on key changes that we needed to make in respect of governance and the development of the workforce plan. Overall, it has been a relatively positive piece of work. As for the delivery of the recommendations, there is no point in pretending they will all be delivered quickly, but we have commenced work on all them. It has been a positive process and we have been working towards-----