Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I know the Minister of State is saying she has additional funding going to CDNTs outsourcing assessments. Is there capacity in the private sector to actually carry out the assessments? I am hearing that there is not and that parents who can afford the assessment cannot actually get one because there are not enough psychologists and so on. I think it is going the wrong way. It is one sector where we see most people opting to go into the private sector rather than the public sector. It is usually the other way around. What is the cost differential in paying someone in the private sector as opposed to giving a further incentive to employ someone in the CDNT?