Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

I support the call by Senator Brian Hayes for a debate on fostering. The health boards face great difficulties in recruiting social workers. My health board has had to go abroad, to South Africa, to recruit them. Perhaps career guidance teachers might exhort students to consider taking up this worthy profession. I applaud the intentions of prospective foster and adoptive parents who show great generosity. Social workers play a pivotal role in the whole area of fostering and adoption. The House should debate the issue sooner rather than later.