Mr. Enda McGorman:

The Psychological Society of Ireland, PSI, has made strong recommendations about routes into its services but the problem is across the board.

There is no point in me, at one level, asking for school-based support services if we are just creating more vacancies on educationposts.ieor the recruitment websites because it is the entry point. We also made very strong submissions on mid-career conversion courses where people may have expertise. I have a degree in psychology as well as being a school principal. There are many people with multiple qualifications who could do a conversion course. We need to be very creative with all of the entry routes, including speech and language, educational psychology, occupational therapy and right across the system, if we are to tackle this issue right now because the vacancies are right across the system. We put our hands out there for support and all we get is a place on a waiting list.