John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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594. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role her Department and Tusla are playing in providing access to timely appropriate interventions such as resilience building programmes and-or counselling, educational assessments and or clinical psychological assessments as appropriate. [53297/18]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, provides family support and child welfare and protection services to families and children identified as needing such services. Tusla provides some tailored programmes to children and families but in general does not provide counselling, educational assessment or clinical psychological assessments. Arrangements can be made for a family member or a child to receive such services from an appropriate agency if, following assessment, it is deemed necessary.

My Department and the Child and Family Agency are in discussion about how services, including some of those referred to by the Deputy, might be developed and made available in the future.