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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)
School Meals Programme
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Minister of State for taking this question. It is a follow-up question, as I have raised this issue previously. I point to the ambition to see every school student with a hot school meal, which has to be commended. I agree that we need to ensure that our children are given all of the support that is necessary to get them the best results and access to education. Equally, it is...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Meals Programme (26 Jun 2024)
Joe O'Brien: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The objective of the school meals programme is to provide regular nutritious food to children to support them in taking full advantage of the education provided to them. The programme is an important component of policy to encourage school attendance and extra educational achievement. Following a significant expansion in recent years, some 2,600...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I had hoped for a more robust response from the Department. Given its commitment to the comprehensive review and “reform of oral healthcare services, including legislative reform, as set out in the national oral health policy”, I would have expected the Department to be much more stringent in its terms and specifically set out...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: I would encourage the Deputy to provide the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, with the specific details of the case so that it can be followed through. The Minister is looking at reviewing and updating the legislation in the context of the wider implementation of the new national oral health policy, which envisages a fundamental reform of oral health services. Any new legislation will be informed...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
National Children's Hospital
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
Pauline Tully: I was stunned to read this week that the long-awaited and long-overdue national children’s hospital was set to be delayed further and that this supposedly state-of-the-art hospital may not even be accessible to wheelchair users. The Dáil was told in February that the project’s completion date would be this October and that the first patients could be expected to be treated...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Children's Hospital (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: On behalf of the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, I thank Deputy Tully for raising this matter and giving me the opportunity to address the speculation about the lack of accessibility for wheelchair users at the new children’s hospital. The hospital is the largest health capital project in the history of the State and will transform the delivery of paediatric healthcare in Ireland. The...
- Prelude (26 Jun 2024)
- Prelude (26 Jun 2024)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.10 a.m.
- Prelude (26 Jun 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (26 Jun 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jun 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joe Flaherty - To discuss the Irish Dental Council's capacity to investigate reports of professional negligence. Deputy Mick Barry - To discuss issues arising from the recent non-custodial sentence issued in a Limerick assault...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (26 Jun 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Dental Services
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I raise the case of a successful County Longford businesswoman who has endured an unrelenting nightmare since she underwent what was meant to be a root canal procedure in May 2019. It left her with permanent injury that will require treatment and medication for the rest of her life, but that is not the worst of it. The worst is the absolute failure of any regulatory body, in this case the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I have to caution the Deputy in respect of identifying somebody who is not here to protect themselves.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I did clarify earlier that I was not going to do so. The same dentist is involved in numerous High Court and Circuit Court cases relating to allegations of negligence in the provision of medical care. To date, my constituent and I are unaware of any actions or sanctions by the Dental Council against this dentist. In fact, a letter from the Dental Council of October 2023 clearly stated it...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly. As the Deputy outlined, under section 38 of the Dentists Act 1985, the Dental Council or any person may apply to the fitness to practise committee of the Dental Council for an inquiry into the fitness of a registered dentist to practise dentistry on the grounds of alleged...