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Dentist resignations in the Western Health Board

Summary

A member asks whether poor pay caused dentists to resign from the Western Health Board service. The Minister confirms a dentist resigned but does not know why, and disputes that inadequate pay was necessarily the cause.

Is the Minister aware that, in the area of the Western Health Board, some dentists who have been providing a service have resigned because of the poor level of payment they were receiving?

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Joseph Brennan An Ceann Comhairle Fianna Fáil

That is a separate question.

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In this case a dentist has resigned but I do not know why.

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Would it not be an idea to find out?

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Thomas J. Fitzpatrick Mr. T.J. Fitzpatrick Fine Gael

(Cavan-Monaghan): Is it not obvious they resigned because the salaries are not adequate?

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I do not think so. People resign for different reasons.

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