Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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It is a chicken-and-egg situation. If there are not sufficient staff, then people leave the organisation because they are burned out. I ask that the figures be sent on to the committee in relation to the number of extra training places. The issue of the workforce pipeline must be addressed in conjunction with that of retention. If this aspect were got right, then the retention issue would start to fix itself if there are enough staff there.