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- Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)
- Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)
Michael Ring: The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2024 and has made no amendment thereto.
- Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
- Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Debate resumed on the following motion: - (Deputy Róisín Shortall)
- Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I support the motion and recognise it is very well presented and timely. It is well overdue. It is an excellent motion and it reflects the real situation affecting so many hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that dental services are not available to them is truly shocking. It is not the first motion of its kind and it will probably not be the last. The motion calls for legislation...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Gino Kenny: I commend the Social Democrats on introducing a motion on this important issue. The Minister of State attended a briefing by the Dental Council and the Irish Dental Association at the Joint Committee on Health a number of weeks ago. The picture they portrayed was stark in respect of oral healthcare in Ireland. The reality is that 80% of oral and dental healthcare is privatised. That was...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Paul Murphy: I welcome the motion. The fact the Government is going to allow it to pass and do nothing about it will not change the fact that on the Dáil record, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael will be named and shamed for their chronic underinvestment in public dentistry. The record will show, without opposition from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, that over decades when one party or the other was...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Mick Barry: I am glad there is a Minister of State from Cork in the Chamber because I would like to hear a response to the point I wish to make. Medical cardholders are finding it increasingly difficult to access the dental care to which the card entitles them. I know that is the case in Cork and suspect it is the case across the country. Some are being forced to wait a long time for appointments....
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I welcome the motion, which is constructive and timely considering the present challenging trajectory of dental service provision in Ireland. Dental services are a subject that comes up repeatedly in constituency offices around the country. That is no surprise, given our increasing population and the declining investment in State-supported expenditure to dental schemes and care. The...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Patricia Ryan: I, too, am disappointed that the Minister is not here this morning. I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. An ounce of prevention is worth a tonne of cure, as the old saying goes, especially when it comes to children’s dental health. Even the current Government’s failures are stark. More than 200,000 children are entitled to school dental screening...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Duncan Smith: It is understandably disappointing that the Minister is not here. I understand he has a family bereavement and funeral this morning but I hope he gets an opportunity to look back at this debate. I sincerely thank Deputy Shortall and her party for tabling this motion. Not only does it relate to a contemporary, urgent health crisis – one of many – but it is also one to which I...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Imelda Munster: Public dental services have almost collapsed under this Government's watch. There are two main issues here. Primary school children are not getting vital checks in second, fourth and sixth class. Nearly half of children are not getting their checks. This was around 100,000 children last year and 100,000 children the year before that. Up to one year ago, more than 12,000 children had been...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this very important motion. As was said, and the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach knows this, for the past number of years we have been highlighting and giving examples of the collapse of the dental care system for medical card holders in Mayo. I am currently dealing with an 80-year-old woman. Two years ago her dentist told her they were no...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Martin Kenny: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. It is an issue in every constituency in the country and it is certainly an issue in my constituency in regard to the school dental service. Parents contact me regularly where their children have gone into sixth class and have never seen a dentist and go on to secondary school without seeing a dentist. This is happening...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Pa Daly: I thank the Social Democrats and Deputy Shortall for bringing this motion. It typifies the lack of attention and lack of care of the Minister that he is not here to address this. If I thought he was away negotiating with the HSE or working on a dental Bill, that would be one thing, but we can be sure that he is not. The state of dental services, particularly for children and the elderly,...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Deputy Shortall and the Social Democrats for moving the motion in the first instance. I do not know if the authors of the motion received any prior notice that the senior Minister would not be here but it is not acceptable that the Minister is not. There may be a reason for it but I heard the Chair himself raise this issue this morning-----
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Michael Ring: It is not good enough.
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
David Cullinane: -----with regard to senior Ministers not coming in. Particularly when people are putting forward very substantial motions, the senior Minister should be here. That is what Opposition time is for. Time and again we are seeing it where a junior Minister is sent in and senior Ministers seem to think it is not their role, but it is. It is their job to be here and to answer the questions that...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I join my colleague, an Teachta Cullinane, in saying it is very disappointing the senior Minister is not here. This is an important matter, it is Opposition time and it is a time when the Opposition have, or should have, a chance to address senior Ministers directly. It is very disappointing he could not make himself available for this. I listened with some interest to the Minister of...
- Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)
Cian O'Callaghan: I thank my colleague Deputy Shortall for her work in bringing forward this motion. It is very disappointing that the Minister for Health is not here and that the second junior Minister who has just come to join this debate is not connected to the Department in any way. The response the Minister of State has just read out does not address many of the fundamental issues we have listed in the...