Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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1680. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of new foster carers recruited by the Child and Family Agency for 2015 and 2016, broken down by social work office and by year. [41470/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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I have been advised by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, that data is not collected on the number of newly recruited foster carers. However, the total number of foster carers on the approved panel of foster carers at the end 2015 and to the end of September, 2016 is as follows:

Total Number of Foster Carers on the panel of approved foster carers - General and Relative

Tusla has advised that this information is not available by area. The 2016 year end figures for numbers of approved foster carers will be published in the coming weeks.