Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

The first sanction is that somebody can be reported to the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner. The use of people's information without their permission is quite a serious offence. The Department may consider the possibility of striking individual dentists from the panel, if it is felt they were deliberately trying to defraud the system. The relevant section of the Department is trying to work through the 150,000 names to determine the degree of eligibility in each instance. We will see if anything else comes to light as a result of that.

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