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.