Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially in view of the need for more social workers in the country and the current cost of-living-crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51831/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The placement requirement for qualification as a social care worker in Ireland is determined by CORU, the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. The Minister for Health has responsibility for CORU and queries related to placements and payments for social care students should be addressed to my colleague in the first instance.