Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire
Question:329. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of hiring one additional educational psychologist. [34383/21]
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The salary scale for an Educational Psychologists in the National Educational Psychologist Service (NEPS) starts at €55,169. There are currently 204 NEPS psychologist posts. Budget 2021 provided for an additional 17 posts to NEPS bringing overall sanctioned numbers to 221 psychologist posts. This represents by far the highest number of psychologists sanctioned for NEPS since its inception in 2000.