Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Dentists will prescribe drugs that are needed. The scheme is very restrictive.

The costs of some components of the treatment pathway are paid for and the dentist may decide that the patient also needs other treatments. Let us say a dentist wants to give a child or an adult with a medical card a certain type of treatment. How long does it take to obtain approval? Is approval given in weeks?