Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla

Ms Colette Walsh:

Absolutely. As we said to Deputy Sherlock on retention, we have 41 social workers on career break at the moment. If we are looking at retaining staff and how we manage that, we are developing this process. We also have 77 social workers availing of the shorter working year. If one looks at the hours one is backfilling with agency staff, one is looking at maternity leave and-----