Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 586: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if her Department has finalised the allocation of the additional 31 educational psychologists to different counties; and if she will provide details of same. [17557/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is working with the National Educational Psychological Service and the Public Appointments Service to ensure that remaining vacancies in NEPS can be filled as soon as possible. Expanding the NEPS service is a major priority for the Government. Since NEPS was established, we have trebled the number of psychologists in the service. We are committed to increasing its staffing further, so that by 2009 there will be 200 NEPS psychologists.