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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: That is correct. I want to return to Mr. Donnelly's point that when people go into the system, they find it too difficult and fall out of it again. The other tranche of jobs would be for new entrants who would not be in the system already. Has anybody from the HSE or any other entity come across to Tusla? Is it always one-way traffic from Tusla to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Has there been an examination of why people come from the HSE to Tusla, for argument's sake?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay, it is for those sectors. Mr. Donnelly has said that there is no exit interview whatsoever for anybody who is leaving.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: The company does not have a HR policy that says there should be an exit interview for anyone who leaves.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: All right. Has that ever been sought by the unions? Have the unions ever asked that of management?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: I will be straight with Mr. Donnelly. I worked in recruitment for eight years before I came in here. In my professional opinion, it is pretty easy to put in place a policy of having an exit interview when somebody leaves. An analysis can be gleaned from the responses to eight, ten or 12 specific questions on a sheet of paper. That would be my subjective opinion, given what I have come...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay. That would be in relation to management. I do not want to get too much into the intricacies. I understand that information is sensitive. I am trying to understand the relationship between the unions and management. I have been hearing about these issues constantly over the past 12 or 18 months. Is it being communicated concurrently at the monthly meetings as a matter of priority...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: That is good to hear. Does Mr. Donnelly believe there is too much focus on change management all the time without an actual focus on a demand-driven or customer-focused service that does not borrow from the private sector? Is he saying that because of the changes that are going on all the time, eyes have been taken off the ball, which is what is driving demand at the front end of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay. What is the length of the recruitment process to hire a social worker?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: That brings me to my next point about panels. We have been told that the panels are quite rigid in respect of CHO areas and that there is no flexibility or fluidity within panels. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: I know. However, I am trying to ascertain if there is anything within the recruitment process that can help us to attract social workers aside from matters regarding salary and there being more attractive positions abroad. Are there bottlenecks within the process whereby somebody will say: "I am not going to go through with this because it will take me 12 months to get this job and in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: What does Mr. Donnelly mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: That is fair comment. Returning to the agencies, and I appreciate that Mr. Donnelly might not be able to answer this, is an exit interview conducted by the agencies who have staff who may fall out of the system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Can we ascertain that information from agencies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: I worked in recruitment agencies. One would conduct an exit interview because as a recruiter the contractor has now dropped out so revenue-wise one's boss says: "The revenue is not coming so what happened? Please do an appraisal." If we had statistics regarding agency workers it would give us some type of anecdotal evidence we could use. That would be helpful. Returning to the panels, I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: That is fine. I appreciate that Mr. Donnelly cannot answer the question but if we can be provided with the information it would be fantastic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: How long have the discussions been going on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Recruitment and Retention of Social Workers: Discussion (Resumed) (28 May 2019)
Tom Neville: In light of what has been mentioned here today about the blame culture that has been arising, we have to recognise the good work that is done by social workers in the system and by Tusla. It has quite rightly been mentioned that we do not see 99.9% of the good work that is done by these members. People do not shout about it from the rooftops. This House needs to look at some sort of...