Mr. Eamonn Donnelly:

Recruitment in the public service is a bit of a monster because of the Garda checks, which are necessary, fields of competition, the egalitarian nature of the competition, the field one has to go to and so forth. It takes time. Due to the way the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health would hold to an equivalence in terms of managing public service expenditure, it is always the case that when the vacancy arises there is a reaction to that, so a natural gap takes place. One could almost have constant panels for social workers the way things have gone in Tusla.