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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We had better go to the Chamber or we will be suspended.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Committee Stage (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: We will not come back. Is that agreed? Agreed. The meeting is now adjourned.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the information they have given to the committee. It is highly important that the highest possible standards prevail in any health practice and we should try to make every effort to ensure nobody gets through the system who should not be there, whether in dental or general medicine, because a number of people who had unfortunate records got through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: For how long were dental practices closed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Nine weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: It was not always possible to identify that in the public arena.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Why was it more difficult to catch up on the school dental examinations than on the general adult dental work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Are efforts being made-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: For what particular reason?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: They were redeployed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: In respect of schoolchildren, were orthodontics affected in the same way? Was there any regard for children with very severe dental needs as can be seen from time to time in almost every practice everywhere? Were any special arrangements made where those urgent cases could or would be dealt with in a particular year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Were the services provided were in line with the funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: At this stage can we identify how long the patients may have to wait on the waiting list and will their opportune moment for dental intervention have expired before they are reached?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Are we in a position now to make an intervention that will be sufficient to make a real impact on the waiting lists in that area, with particular reference to the window of opportunity that exists between the ages of A and B or whatever it may be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Has Mr. Hourihan any knowledge of the funding that might be required? Is it an endless amount that moves from time to time or is there a precise amount of funding needed now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: The Irish Dental Association has not done any calculations in that respect.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Mr. Hourihan cannot give us a ballpark figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Maybe we might-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: Yes. I thank Ms Gallagher. At the beginning of the meeting, there was reference to bringing standards up to the UK levels, even though the UK is a non-EU country. Is it not necessary now to ensure that all standards are brought up to EU levels because of some of the things that happened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: I will not go back through the whole lot again, but-----