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Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. I had hoped that the Minister would come in today and outline a clear plan to reform of public dentistry. However, all we got was talk. The scripts that were read out by the two Ministers of State were an absolute disgrace. The Ministers of State are either delusional or blatantly disingenuous. They displayed a complete disconnect from...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I wish to make a clarification. A number of speakers stated that the recruitment embargo affected the recruitment of dentists. It does not affect the recruitment of dentists.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: It affects consultants.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputies across the House for their contributions to this debate. As the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, has noted, an additional €15 million in core funding since 2019 and 2020 and a further additional €17 million in once-off funding has been supporting the ongoing work to reduce waiting lists and to address access to services through policy implementation. I...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Gary Gannon: I will look at this from a different vantage than the previous speaker. When I was walking across the city this morning, I listened to the Ombudsman for Children responding to the child poverty report, which, once again, highlights that the level of child poverty in this State is increasing. Then, I came in here to talk about this motion. I thank Deputy Shortall for bringing it forward....

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion on the totally unacceptable lack of dentistry services in Ireland. The motion lays bare the damning statistics, which I will not repeat. They are stark. If there was only one recommendation I would ask the Government to put in place from this motion, it would be to commit to providing the required funding in budget...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak to this motion regarding dentistry services and thank the Social Democrats for bringing the motion forward. I fully support this motion and its calls for the Government to expand the capacity of public dental services for children and special care patients, reform the dental treatment service scheme, publish the dentists Bill and address the funding...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Social Democrats for using their Private Members' time this week to discuss the serious failings in respect of dentistry services. The motion acknowledges that access to dental care has been in crisis. That is especially true in counties like my constituency of Clare. Urgent action was required by Government to address the serious failings. Instead, we got gestures and token...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Debate adjourned.

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...