Written answers
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Department of Health
Dental Services Provision
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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690. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional dentists the HSE would need to employ in order to provide school screenings at three different classes annually, in view of the 20% increase in the number of children under 16 over the past decade and the 20% reduction in the number of general dental surgeons employed by the HSE in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27051/16]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.
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