Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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That work needs to be done urgently.

We have been contacted by researchers who are undertaking a Ph.D. in education psychology. So unlike clinical and, potentially soon, counselling psychology, the educational psychologists who are predominantly hired by the public education have received no support yet are required to pay extremely high fees of more than €11,000 but they are not reimbursed for their work. By comparison, in the HSE clinical psychiatrists who study to the same doctoral level get 60% fee cover and a modest salary. Would the delegation see a similar approach to education and counselling psychologists being trained to work in the education system? Why is there a difference?