Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a family (details supplied) will be assisted to have an appropriate assessment for their child carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43562/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that my Department’s National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) has not extended service to special schools who traditionally received multi-disciplinary services, including psychology from HSE services or bodies funded by the HSE. I understand that such services are provided, in the school to which the Deputy refers in his question, by the COPE Foundation.

I would therefore advise that the parents of the child concerned pursue the matter of his assessment with COPE.