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

I ask the HSE to send a written update to the committee on the situation in CHO 8 across those five therapies. I also ask for a written reply from Ms Kennedy to the following question as I do not expect her to have the details with her, nor do we have the time to go into it. In 2019 there was €138.6 million for dental health, with €62.3 million for public dental health services, which I presume is the PRSI scheme. For orthodontics there was €20.3 million and there was €56 million for the dental treatment services scheme, DTSS, in 2019. I presume it is a similar figure or maybe there has been an increase. Could Ms Kennedy send the committee a note on the dental health budget across those three areas, including public treatment, orthodontic treatment and the DTSS in CHO 8 and specifically in Laois-Offaly? I ask her to send us a breakdown of that and of what the situation is with dental health services because I want to try to understand what has happened. I think I have discussed this before with Ms Kennedy and with Des O'Flynn. We do not have a service in some of the counties so I want to try to understand what is happening in between. I ask Ms Kennedy to send me that information as a starting point.