Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide in tabular form the number of social workers for children in County Meath in March 2011, in March 2012 and in January 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5708/13]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Information received from the HSE indicates that in County Meath the approved complement of whole time equivalent social workers in the Children and Families care group on the dates indicated by the Deputy was as follows:

The HSE has today confirmed to me that the HSE National Recruitment Service in Manorhamilton is currently in the process of filling current vacancies in Co Meath including 'permanent' vacancies and vacancies arising as a result of maternity leave.