Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1624: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the 74 national schools in County Galway that do not have access to the services provided by the National Educational Psychological Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1881/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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As the deputy will be aware all primary and post primary schools have access to psychological assessments either directly through the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) or through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA). Schools that do not currently have NEPS psychologists assigned to them may avail of the SCPA, 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.

In respect of Galway currently 165 of the 239 national schools within the county (69% of schools and 77% of Pupils ) have a NEPS psychologist assigned to them, the remaining 74 have provision made under the SCPA. I attach a list of these schools for the Deputy's information.