Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers in County Meath for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013; the number of vacancies currently unfilled; her plans to fill same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7932/13]

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 in 2011, 2012 and 2013 was as follows:

I have asked the HSE for the relevant information relating to the years 2009 and 2010, and I will arrange for this to be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is received.

HSE Children and Family Services will continue to apply discretion to the filling of social work vacancies in 2013, taking account of identified need and subject to services being delivered within available resources. The HSE has confirmed that the HSE National Recruitment Service is currently in the process of filling all current vacancies in Co Meath of which there are 7, including 3 'permanent' vacancies and 4 vacancies arising as a result of maternity leave.