Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

Regarding forward planning, one of the issues I have raised in the last two weeks is that of dental treatment. We do not appear to be doing forward planning for key areas. For instance, with the ophthalmology service in Cork, it took us eight or nine years to get it up and running. Are we now looking at forward planning for a number of key areas where we will have an increase in numbers? We are reacting rather than being proactive.