Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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1687. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of social workers in the Child and Family Agency that have completed training to conduct joint Garda specialist child sexual abuse interviews since 2010; the number of those that are still employed at social worker grade in the Child and Family Agency; and the total number of joint social work and Garda specialist child sexual abuse interviews carried out in that time. [41593/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The Child and Family Agency has informed me that three social workers have trained as specialist interviewers since 2010. All three specialist interviewers are still employed at social worker grade and at this time the Agency has five specialist interviewers in total (this includes the three interviewers trained since 2010). The Child and Family Agency does not collect data on the total number of joint social work and Gardaí specialist child sexual abuse interviews carried out.