Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 749: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of psychologists on the National Education Psychological Service panel established following the recruitment competition of 2005; when the next recruitment competition will take place; and the number who applied under the 2005 competition. [26382/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Public Appointments Service (PAS) conducted an open competition on behalf of my Department for positions as psychologists with the National Educational Psychologists Service (NEPS) in 2005.

I understand from PAS that 172 applications were received of which 31 were ineligible. Following a short-listing process, 55 candidates were invited for interview and arising from this 41 were placed on a panel. The panel will remain open until July 2007. The need to conduct a further competition will only arise upon the expiry or exhaustion of the current panel.