Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)

To recap, the Minister stated today that the 60 social workers who the Dáil was told last year were to be recruited as part of the Ryan report recommendations were not required as the levels recommended by the report had been reached because the Minister would go back as far as 2009. That begs the question of what was the point of recruiting those social workers in the first place. They were being recruited to bring compliance with the Ryan report recommendations but only ten were in place by the end of last year. That is totally inconsistent with the Minister's approach of letting social workers retire from the HSE.

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