An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-07
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I thank the Deputy. For obvious reasons, I am not going to comment on evidence given in court, but regarding the issue the Deputy raises on regulating the psychology profession, we agree that it is desirable that it should be regulated. Since CORU was established, we have added a new profession pretty much every year. In the past, very few professions were regulated or titles protected. We have changed that over the course of the past ten years.
Regarding psychology, it is not straightforward. It is complicated by the fact that there is not a common education pathway and there are no common standards for entry into the profession. Public consultation in 2020 revealed significant challenges and no consensus, but the Minister has not given up on this. He wrote to the Psychologists Registration Board on this back in August. It replied to him only last Friday. He is going to consider those views with the goal of advancing this work as soon as it can be done.

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