Professor Leo Stassen:

Some dentists work with special care patients. It is a particularly time-consuming type of treatment and it needs to be a particular person, which not everybody is. Some people like dealing with that type of person so one can get the provision of special care in general practice, but most dental practitioners are unable to provide that type of treatment. It is mainly in schools that it can be accessed rather than in hospital services.

I support the national oral health plan, which is to look at this issue, particularly in regard to the private people to see how they might be given dental care. Who is going to provide it is our question.