John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is what I picked up and that is very important for us in any kind of findings. A number of my colleagues asked the questions I wanted to ask and the witnesses have answered them.

There are a couple of others I want to ask. It is not that I missed them. I am really keen on the answers the witnesses gave. Dentists were not the only ones to whom the HSE failed to deliver PPE. The HSE made a commitment to pharmacists as well. I do not mean that by way of comfort; it is just disappointing that is what happened.

If I was a business consultant who had listened to the witnesses, and particularly to one aspect of what Mr. Hourihan had to say, would it be unfair of me to say that the Irish Dental Association has an issue in that the general public still tends to see dentistry as a cosmetic thing as opposed to a health measure? I was taken with Mr. Hourihan's contribution on dental hygiene being connected to general health and having a holistic impact. The jaw bones are connected to the rest of the body and this has an impact on our overall health. I do not know if that is widely known among the general public. Is that a fair summation?