Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Question 60: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers that have retired or are due to retire at the end of February under the recent public sector retirement scheme; the total number of social workers that will then be in the State; and the way this number will enable her to fully resource the services needed to put the Children First guidelines on a statutory footing. [8083/12]

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