444 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under current practice his Department will not appoint a special needs assistant for a child (details supplied) in County Wexford who has been diagnosed with ADHD and related behavioural difficulties until they have been assessed by a clinical psychologist, that there is a two-year delay in the public system for child psychologist assessment and that their parents paid for their child’s developmental paediatrics evaluation and cannot fund a private clinical psychologist assessment as both are unemployed; the action that will be taken by his Department in conjunction with the health services to ensure that an SNA is appointed for this child without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21368/09]

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444 Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Minister for Education and Science if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under current practice his Department will not appoint a special needs assistant for a child (details supplied) in County Wexford who has been diagnosed with ADHD and related behavioural difficulties until they have been assessed by a clinical psychologist, that there is a two-year delay in the public system for child psychologist assessment and that their parents paid for their child’s developmental paediatrics evaluation and cannot fund a private clinical psychologist assessment as both are unemployed; the action that will be taken by his Department in conjunction with the health services to ensure that an SNA is appointed for this child without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21368/09]

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