Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the 300 additional Tusla staff who are being recruited to handle mandatory reporting, by job title and pay grade. [54071/17]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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My allocation of an additional €40.6 million in 2018 will allow Tusla to increase its staffing levels significantly to respond to expected increases in referrals following the introduction of mandatory reporting on 11 December 2017.

The breakdown of the additional staff, and the precise number of additional social workers to be recruited, is now being finalised by Tusla in the context of its 2018 Business Plan and the Performance Statement which I issued recently.