Health Services Staff
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-09
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Colm Burke (FG), Cork North-Central

I fully accept that the area is complex, and I have stated as much in discussions with Ministers over the past two days. Nevertheless, a danger exists, as was highlighted in the "RTÉ Investigates" programme. Somebody who is holding themselves out as having a qualification can give a written report that can be used in planning out the programme of care for a young person or child, and that is the danger. The PSRB was established in 2017, more than five years ago. We now need to move on. I do not want to have to come back to the House this time next year and raise the same questions. This needs to be given priority, with resources put in to ensure a structure of regulation and governance will deal with the issue. Psychology is too important to be allowed to go unregulated.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-09