Mr. Fintan Hourihan:

In the case of the children's screening service, it is purely a function of resources. They were under-resourced to start with. As Dr. Rymer stated, the HSE dentists were deployed into different areas and they are doing their level best to catch up. However, the gap is widening all of the time between the number of children in schools and the number of dentists available to go out and screen them. It is getting continually worse.