Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Unfortunately, we come across daily unacceptable delays in children getting dental treatment. Children should be screened in second, fourth and sixth classes. In Cavan at present, the children who are in the programme for sixth class have gone to second level before they actually see a dentist. It is a shortage of personnel. The local personnel are working extremely hard but they do not have the resources to give the service that children in Cavan-Monaghan need.

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