Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am asking because dentistry is something I get asked about. The public ask me what has happened to the system. People in the midlands raise it with me but it is replicated across many counties. There is a budget that comes across from the Oireachtas and the Department of Health and it goes to the HSE. I know there is no sticking plaster and it is about the pipeline. We have identified that we have fewer than half the school dentists that we need. Is there resistance from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science about training? Is there resistance from colleges? Yes or no?