Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 10 Jun 2003

Vol. 568 No. 1

Written Answers. - Psychological Service.

Marian Harkin

Question:

326 Ms Harkin asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason the criteria for the allocation of resource hours to children already assessed as requiring resource hours by a NEPS psychologist has been changed in order to deny these resources to the children concerned (details supplied). [15325/03]

Minister for Education and Science (Mr. N. Dempsey)

Eligibility for additional resource hours is established by means of psychological, or other professional, assessment. My Department's circular letters 7/02 and 8/02 define criteria for identifying each category of disability and quantify the level of resources to be allocated in respect of each. These criteria have not been changed.