Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 73: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of national schools that are covered by the NEPS service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7908/05]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The number of primary schools, including special schools, that have NEPS psychologists directly assigned to them is 1,766. All schools that do not currently have NEPS psychologists assigned to them may avail of the scheme for commissioning psychological assessments, whereby the school can have an assessment carried out by a member of the panel of private psychologists approved by NEPS, and NEPS will pay the psychologist the fees for this assessment directly. Details of this process, and the conditions that apply to the scheme, appear upon the Department's website. NEPS also provides assistance to all schools that suffer from critical incidents, regardless of whether they have a NEPS psychologist assigned to them.