Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I asked a parliamentary question in June about the number of dentists accepting medical cards. The answer I received was that just one dentist in Laois is accepting cards. This is one public dentist for a county with a population of 90,000 people. In Kildare eight dentists have left the scheme over the past year with just 28 submitting claims in May. I am inundated with people looking for dentists. No list is available. People are blue in the face from ringing all over the county and often outside of Kildare. When will the Government address the crisis that is public dentistry and act to prevent irreparable and painful damage that will be much more expensive to fix?

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