Order. I want to come to deal with other questions. I will call Deputy Yates for a supplementary.

In relation to the Supplementary Estimate, would the Minister acknowledge that most of the extra £31 million is not to provide improved health care services or to fill the gaps, to which Deputy Rabbitte referred? Would he agree that it is to cover over-runs of overestimated expenditure, that none of the money will provide dental services, child care services, the needs of AIDS patients and so on; but that it is to cover the wrong calculation of the cost of running the health service in 1989 and that therefore it is false to represent it as the cash boost to the health services?

I do not accept that. I have already pointed out a number of areas in which there have been improvements and a reduction in the waiting list as a result of the £15 million provided by the Government. Regarding dental services, there is provision in the Supplementary Estimate for an orthodontic service to deal with 500 priority cases.

There are 700 cases in County Wexford alone. This is a drop in the ocean.

It is the first time in six years that any effort has been made to improve the dental service.

The Minister savaged the Estimate.

Order. This is becoming a wide-ranging affair, more appropriate to the debate on the health services later this evening.