Mr. Fintan Hourihan:

All of the public dental surgeons would be regarded as being part of primary care, as would private general dental practitioners. Many of the dentists who were involved in testing in the early stages and were redeployed, while some have gone back to their day jobs, are likely to be redeployed for vaccination purposes. Unfortunately, because of the great abilities and skills of dentists, they are prevailed upon at all stages to do non-dental work. There are strong indications that many public dental surgeons who were redeployed initially for testing will now be redeployed for vaccinations.