Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister's response and I understand the response but the DTSS programme just is not working. For instance, the working-class town of Mallow that I come from, which has 13,450 adults living there, has no medical card provided dentist practice. Nobody is accepting a medical card in Mallow. You must travel to Cork city or to Charleville, to Limerick or down to Kerry. Many practices have given up because the system is not working. Would the Minister agree that what we need to be doing now as a Government, or what the Minister needs to be doing as part of the Government - I am not in the Government yet-----

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