Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Tusla, the Child and Family Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

No, I have not seen a collective or specific reason. For example, Sligo Institute of Technology, which traditionally was not a provider of social work training, set up a social work programme because they found that a number of their graduates from their social care programme wanted to go on and convert to social work, as well as others. It is those types of initiatives for the future rather than just expecting the traditional courses to expand because there is demand in universities for expansion of lots of different programmes from social work to nursing and right across the spectrum of health and social services. I think it is in the bigger mix of the university piece. I do not think they are against creating places.