Written answers
Wednesday, 26 January 2005
Department of Education and Science
Psychological Service
9:00 pm
Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 1230: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the percentage of national schools in the State which have access to educational psychologists; and the percentage in County Kildare which have access to educational psychologists. [1883/05]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The percentage of national schools in the State with access to the psychological service provided by the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, is 53%, representing 63% of pupils in the sector. In County Kildare. The percentage of national schools with access to NEPS is 40%-52% of pupils.
Those schools that do not have access to the NEPS service are entitled to avail of the scheme for commissioning psychological assessments. All schools, therefore, have some access to psychologists.
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