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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Further engagement is scheduled.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is good to hear. To go back to the issue of the statutory competency scheme, it appears that the longer established professions have undertaken a number of revisions to their oversight and governance in recent years. I am quite surprised - I am actually shocked - that there is no competency scheme. Is there a system or scheme of continued professional development? Is it mandatory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is outrageous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: All professionals have an ethical requirement, whether they are constructing buildings or looking after people's teeth, to ensure that they enter into continued professional development, because technology changes. I do not understand how this is the case when every other established profession has mandatory continued professional development.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I am intrigued. I do not know how this has passed by-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: It is entirely voluntary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Compulsory CPD is the basic of almost every profession.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: How does one secure insurance in a profession that has no compulsory CPD?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is €20,000 per year per practice or per individual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I know none of the witnesses are in the business of insurance but it seems that if you could ensure professional competency through some kind of mandatory scheme, that might impact the rates of insurance. That is a fairly basic principle in actuary or insurance. That might deal with some of the costs in the private sector, certainly. Is that a fair assumption?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I take the point. I do not mean to characterise the situation in that way. However, considering what I know about other professions in this country and their associated obligations regarding mandatory continuing professional development, I am surprised that this is the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: I take it as read that the vast majority of people in dental practice would welcome some more verifiable means of regulation. I see all the witnesses nodding their heads. We do not have a register of dental practices. I will use the two minutes remaining to me to talk about that. Reference was made to a practice somewhere in Drumcondra, which is in the constituency I represent. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: Is Mr. O'Flynn aware of any body of the State that is collecting that type of information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: That is terrifying. I thank the witnesses for their responses.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s views on whether the guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours prohibits the provision of sibling hour and afterschool facilities at a school building (details supplied) as per the decision of the board of management at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the Governance Manual for Primary Schools 2023-2027 in anyway prohibits the use of primary schools for sibling hour and/or afterschool services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19249/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify the obligations on patron bodies of national schools to have in place formal complaints procedures for parents to question boards of management acting under their patronage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19250/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if forthcoming updated guidelines on the use of school buildings will take into consideration the difficulty parents face in accessing childcare by encouraging schools to facilitate sibling hour and after-school providers, through access to school space after school hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19251/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools can be encouraged to facilitate after-school care for junior classes who finish earlier than senior classes by allowing use of classrooms for that hour by childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19252/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (30 Apr 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: 402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the role of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in ensuring the protection of the old Irish goat, which, according to reports (details supplied), is being hunted for sport and on the verge of extinction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19082/24]