Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)

Deputy McConalogue is making incorrect predictions and assumptions, as he did in this House in July, September, November and December last. On each occasion he predicted that for 2011, the 60 posts recommended by the Ryan report and which I committed to recruiting would not be recruited and that the overall number of social workers would have gone backwards. On all four occasions and on both counts he was wrong. The 60-62 in fact were recruited and the total number of child and family social workers increased by 37 in 2011. Those are the facts.

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