John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. I thank everyone for that. I want to move on to a completely different area, which is the dental treatment services scheme. When the witnesses appeared before the Committee of Public Accounts previously, I raised serious concerns I had in terms of the failure to address the serious shortcomings regarding that scheme. I gave figures relating to my own county where 70% of dentists who had signed up to that scheme have now withdrawn. It is down to 16 dentists now in County Wicklow providing that cover. It is proving virtually impossible for people and medical card holders to access a dentist. How much is budgeted annually for the dental treatment services scheme?