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:

We have a recruitment licence and all jobs have to be publicly advertised. On that basis, we would not be converting agency staff members into permanent staff. Rather, we would be advertising the job. The agency staff would convert for a period and would bed down into that position, and they would then be in a better position to apply for a permanent job at a later stage.