Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding his Department allocated to the National Educational Psychological Service in each of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14568/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy may be aware that my Department's National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) provides educational psychology service to all primary and post primary schools through an assigned NEPS psychologist and in some cases through the Scheme for Commissioning Psychological Assessments (SCPA).

NEPS is a division within my Department and is therefore funded from voted monies to the Department of Education and Skills. The table following shows the allocation to NEPS for each of the last 10 years along with the out-turn expenditure figure.

This funding is utilised to pay for the pay costs of NEPS Psychologist and Administrative staffing, the cost of SCPA and for the full range of non-pay costs involved in maintaining service to schools through a 23 office regional structure including staff travel & subsistence, psychometric test materials, office maintenance and provisioning.

NEPS Allocated Budget and expenditure 2007 to 2016