Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed)
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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The detail is fairly simple, it is just a copy of the original exercise that was undertaken in 2015. It does not seem outrageous to me that this be published. We have just been through the Scally inquiry, for instance, which was a scoping inquiry. Its terms of reference were very public. The scoping inquiry itself was very public as were its recommendations, which were first shared with the people affected - or maybe not in all cases, which we will not dwell on, but that was the intention - and then put in the public domain. Mr. Healy will understand that there is some concern because there seems to be some secrecy surrounding the report which has caused people to wonder what is in the report. The attitude seems to be one of "Ah, there is not much in it," but if that is the case, why not just publish it?