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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I thank the witnesses for their contribution. A gap in the number of social workers has been identified. How can this gap be closed? Has an analysis been done of the recruitment process to identify where the logjam lies or what is the reason for the failure to attract more social workers to take up vacant positions? Has sufficient funding been sanctioned for social work positions? Where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Could I ask why that is the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Has Tusla identified gaps in the HSE model and is it now honing a system of its own to make it better? Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I am sorry, but I need to get my head around this. Is Mr. McBride saying the length of the NRS recruitment process from end to end was too slow?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: What was happening? Were candidates falling out of it and getting other jobs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: On Tusla's recruitment practice and what was observed with the NRS, will Mr. McBride give statistics on the current recruitment timeline? Is the process shorter by 40% or 60%? Has the process been analysed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I know there is a fine line in the recruitment process in terms of whether a candidate will fall out or move on to accept a role.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: What was the target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Was that from a pipeline which started in 2016?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Is Mr. McBride finding that the number of losses, from a retention point of view, are starting to decrease as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I understand. What about the staff pipeline? Are more staff coming into it? A recruitment process takes time and there is a period between when someone is offered and accepts a role. The current pipeline is for quarter 2 and quarter 3. Is there an increase in the pipeline in relation to the new practices?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I am not asking for the figure now but could Mr. McBride furnish us with figures on the percentage of increased staff in the pipelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: That will show us what will happen in quarter 2 or quarter 3 of this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: I am also interested in the percentages in terms of the increase Tusla is getting in the pipeline because that will indicate what success there will be down the line.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: The second issue is retention. If there is an increase in retention, what is that percentage measured against the parameters Tusla is setting down? Mr. McBride is working on the front line and he is dealing with the nitty-gritty of recruitment. If he is finding discrepancies within the NRS and the HSE and he is finding ways to address them, it would be wise and prudent for them to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Does that go back to the need for practical experience as opposed to academic knowledge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: Is Mr. Gibson suggesting an apprenticeship-type mode?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: While people of that disposition may not be hugely academic, they may have skills a social worker would require.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: No.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Parks (21 Jun 2017)
Tom Neville: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons that entered Curraghchase Park in 2016; the amount of revenue which was collected; the amount of money which was reinvested by the Government in Curraghchase Park in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29130/17]