Mr. Frank Goodman:

To pick up on the final point made by Dr. Kavanagh, one of the tasks of Sláintecare, which is a substantial piece of work, is to review the health services whole system of eligibility for services, payment structures and so on. There are a lot of schemes in being at the moment, a mixed public-private system to which the Deputy alluded not only in dental care but in other services in the community and in the hospital system as well in respect of which we have a variety of arrangements. One of the core objectives of Sláintecare is to take a stand back from that, to do the analysis and come up with sustainable options for consideration. That is a sizeable job of work. This will inform what will happen in oral health services as well, because they will have to be included in that consideration.