Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I will clarify how I conveyed to the HSE the abhorrence spoken of by the Deputy. I initiated the policy of meeting HSE representatives on a monthly basis to deal with child protection issues. We have ensured that 200 additional social workers are in place to alleviate the case load that social workers had in the child protection area; we achieved that target, on which I was rightly questioned throughout the year.

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