Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 896: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the scope of National Educational Psychological Service to cover Youthreach centres will be extended. [15246/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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A specific fund is provided through vocational education committees — VECs — for guidance, counselling and psychological services for students attending Youthreach centres. In the two Dublin VEC areas this takes the form of dedicated educational psychological services, while in other VEC areas psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors or guidance practitioners are employed on a sessional basis to provide these services. A NEPS psychologist is assigned to my Department's further education section to co-ordinate and develop these services on a national basis.