Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency
9:30 am
Ms Kate Duggan:
Ms Murphy or Ms Mannion may wish to come in after me. The first thing to say is that we are at our funded workforce. One of the positions we have taken as an agency is to say that where we have professionally qualified social workers or social care workers, they need to be doing what they need to do and do not need to be tied up with paperwork and administrative parts of the tasks. Where we did not have the supply of social workers or social care workers we needed, we have recruited other grades of staff. We have recruited, I think, 90 more additional social care workers-----