Despite some media reports, the new fitness to practise regime announced by the Minister for Primary and Social Care, Kathleen Lynch TD, on 21st of January 2015, does not apply to counsellors and psychotherapists.
It applies only to those professions that are being regulated by Coru. Counsellors and psychotherapists are not even on the list for future regulation. How long it will take to get on the list and be regulated is anybody's guess - five years minimum, in my opinion, if it happens at all.
Coru - another body, like Tusla, with a meaningless name - is the state agency for regulating health and social care professionals.
Link to Minister's announcement
Link to CORU
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