Question from Deputy Niamh Smyth - PQ 17366-26

To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that routine appointments for dental care (Routine Dental appointments in schools not happening for years in Cavan and Monaghan now. Severe backlogs due to reported shortages in staff and it cannot continue. They only have enough staff for emergencies. What is her Department doing.) are not taking place due to staffing issues; the efforts her Department is making to assist staffing issues in counties Cavan and Monaghan presently; and if she will make a statement on the matter.