Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the fact that the counselling doctorate offered by Trinity College Dublin, and fully recognised and accredited by an organisation (details supplied), does not provide payment to students unlike the doctorate in clinical psychology which is offered by the five main Irish universities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14258/20]

Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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The requisite funding of these courses is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Department has no role in this regard. The Department understands that the Deputy has submitted a similar question on the funding of these courses to the Department of Health and that Department has, in turn, asked the HSE to respond directly to him.