Brendan Daly (Fianna Fail)

On this section I wish to raise the difficult situation in the mid-west and Limerick area where there has been a difference of opinion within the orthodontic service about the training of personnel. I ask whether it is possible within this section of the Bill to find a resolution to a problem which seems to be delaying orthodontic treatment for hundreds of young people who are on waiting lists and who are very put out because they have been delayed for years because of an internal difference of opinion between some of the orthodontic people about the training of orthodontists. I am not sure if the Minister is aware of the situation but with regard to this section she might make a note to have some examination undertaken of the situation in the mid-west and Limerick where children are in need of orthodontic treatment——