Dr. John Marley:

I refer the Senator to pages 40 to 42, inclusive. He will see there are priorities and action points in that. The Department talks about nine priorities over three years that it would wish to see actioned, but within those there are 16 action points. One of the nine priorities is action 28, which is when we first hear about updating the Dentists Act. In terms of an evidential base of the priority placed on that, it speaks for itself, yet we are somewhat confused as to why that would not be in place to begin with before we introduce what is being proposed in terms of the oral health policy. Professor Lynch has a comment to make in terms of continuing professional development, CPD, as well.