Professor Chris Lynch:

I work in the Cork Dental School and treat the same sort of patients that Professor Stassen treats. He is a surgeon and removes tumours. My role, as a restorative dentist, is to reconstruct and put back missing teeth. There is funding available from the HSE. Our institution has a service level agreement but it is ring-fenced and a certain amount of money goes with that every year. These are primarily the sorts of patients we should be treating in our hospitals. Treatment for these patients should be free at the point of delivery because they find themselves in a very unfortunate and distressing situation.