Question from Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - PQ 14990-26

To ask the Minister for Health if she recognises the importance of the oral health prevention programmes delivered by an organisation (Dental Health Foundation Ireland) in DEIS primary schools, work with the traveller community and with Men’s Sheds; and if she will outline whether additional funding or resources will be made available to enable the foundation to expand its work with children in DEIS schools, and other vulnerable groups particularly in areas of high need; and if she will make a statement on the matter.