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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Is this increase a result of the recruitment drive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Tusla has 499 agency staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Of those, 226 are social workers and 160 are in social care.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: How much is this costing Tusla, quarterly or annually?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: That is obviously a substantial cost.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: What is Mr. Smyth doing to shift that dynamic in order that Tusla can recruit these people as whole-time equivalents?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: If I were an agency worker, why would I want to go into Tusla? Is it more beneficial in terms of my terms and conditions and rate of pay to stay as an agency worker?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Is Mr. Smyth trying proactively to disrupt this dynamic in order to bring them in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Do we know how much the agencies are creaming off the top for-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: How much?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Can Mr. Smyth supply us with general figures regarding this dynamic? If it is €31 million, it is a big chunk of change out of Tusla's annual budget. If 10% is going to recruitment agencies, that is an unmitigated scandal. I am not blaming the witnesses for that - that is the way the system is working - but there is something inherently wrong in that. My next question concerns...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Fostering is as difficult and challenging as the other areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: My last question concerns international best practice. The witnesses may not have the answer now. I perceive that the role of a social worker in society today is potentially very much more complex than it might have been ten, 15 or 20 years ago. Is there a natural rate of burnout? Is there a period of years beyond which one should not work so as to guarantee the well-being of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Is that process under way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Tusla (13 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: Is someone kicking the tyres in the process to see if it works?
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: 82. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Ministers he has met to discuss capital projects in their Departments since budget 2019; when the meetings took place; the projects discussed; if the projects discussed will be allocated extra funding; and if not, if money will be deducted from its budget in tabular form. [7536/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hazardous Waste Removal (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: 197. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when remediation work will be completed on Haulbowline Island, County Cork and what the reason for the delay. [7580/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Meetings (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: 276. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the meetings she has had with the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in respect of additional funding or loan facilities to be extended to Cork City Council regarding a centre (details supplied). [7428/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (19 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: 395. To ask the Minister for Health when a drug (details supplied) will be made available. [8119/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Implementation (19 Feb 2019)
Seán Sherlock: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with a company (details supplied) regarding its announcement of an extra 80,000 homes and businesses to be covered with broadband; and the way in which this will impact the roll out of the national broadband plan. [7713/19]