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:

We can give the Chairman details of that. We have somewhere in the order of approximately 1,400 open retrospective cases. That increased quite significantly in 2018. We have found that, as there is publicity about retrospective abuse, we tend to get increases in referrals.