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:
I would put that a slightly different way. It is because we cannot fill them that they end up being filled by agency staff. It is important to know the position at this stage of the year. No available social workers are hanging around, even in agency organisations. They have all been hoovered up by individual organisations.