Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. David O'Flynn:

That is the entire menu there in the 2021 submission. We recognise there is a politically reality, with the general election looming, as to what can get through on the legislative agenda on this side of an election or not. It is our strong hope and wish that the three points I covered in my opening statement about the continuing confidence, about the ability to check who is in a dental practice and whether they are registered, and about strengthening our capacity around education are three things that can happen this side of a general election. They are the three issues we certainly would like to see as key interim measures that would go a fair step of the way to providing that extra assurance to dental patients that the person they are seeing is a registered dentist in the first case - that probably is the key thing - and second, is competent to practice. We believe those three issues are certainly things that can happen in the short term. We would dearly love to see them happen in the short term and certainly would appreciate the committee's support in any way it can in moving that process along.

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