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. Jim Gibson:

All duty intake teams deal with retrospective cases. That is the point of contact and, ordinarily, those cases are picked up by the duty intake child protection and welfare staff. It is a highly complex and challenging area of work which is devoid of good legislation to compel the person making the complaint to follow through on it.