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- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is great, thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I will let the Deputy in again in the second round of questioning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Returning to dental treatment services scheme. The budget is €62 million or €63 million for this year. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: When HSE pitches for the budget, is a target set in terms of service delivery? I am interested in the budget and the delivery of services with fillings, extractions, treatments, etc. Briefly. I do not want to rush Mr. Walsh.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Have we got a rough figure for the number of extractions and fillings, for example? I would not expect Mr. Walsh to have it down to the last one but across the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Have they attended?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: What was the final figure for last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Please.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Walsh mentioned Laois earlier. My heart warmed when he said there are 12 dentists in the scheme but there is not. My secretary spent some time ringing around different dental practices. We got lists from the HSE. Right enough, there would have been 12 dentists in the scheme at one stage but it is down to one and that dentist will not take on new patients. I am open to correction on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: In the public system.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know it is a challenge.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is because DTSS has collapsed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: We contacted them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: When we phone them or a constituent contacts them, they will not take them. They are refusing to take them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: The negotiations have concluded.
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the budget for CHO 8 for the DTSS?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: That is still a relatively small budget. What I hear is that we do not have a budget and projected outcomes. The system would seem to be a patchwork. There is a budget if people can get a service. However, what we are finding is that people cannot get the service because the private dentists are not doing it. The private dentists are providing a fairly good service. I am not knocking...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: Not in Laois. There is a real problem with public dental health in counties Laois and Offaly. County Laois is on the floor. I do not say that to be parochial. I have to reflect what constituents tell me. The information I pick up from schools and parents is that it is not happening. Regarding the dental treatment service scheme, DTSS, scheme, I understand that there is a challenge. The...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: It is fair to say, as Mr. Gloster said, the extra 20% is there. The number of extra ones being treated needs to be looked at. Some figures have been given for that but the facts are that the DTSS scheme and the schools scheme will have to have a large public element as we move into Sláintecare. It is not working. I say to the management team here that they have to accept that this is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)
Brian Stanley: There is plenty of space for development-----