With regard to the routine orthodontic waiting list within the Kerry and Cork community health care organisation, in an effort to reduce the waiting times a national list initiative commenced in 2016 whereby treatment was offered to clients placed on the routine orthodontic waiting list up to December 2012, that is, those who have been waiting four years or more. I was informed by the HSE last Friday that there is no money left to fund this initiative, which was working very well and had served 235 people in Cork and Kerry areas, and there are still people waiting to be called for the past four years. When will that initiative get further funding as it is now stalled waiting for money to be allocated to it?

With respect to Deputy Healy-Rae, it is an important issue but it is not a legislative question.

There is a commitment in the programme for Government-----

It is a matter of allocation within the Vote for a very important issue and the HSE manager should be able to advise the Deputy as to the opportunities that exist to transfer other moneys into that Vote to ensure these orthodontic procedures can be carried out for people who need them in Cork and Kerry. That is not an issue of legislation, as Deputy Healy-Rae knows.

There is a commitment in the programme for Government on this-----

There is but-----

-----and the Taoiseach cannot walk away from this. He made promises and gave commitments. He cannot stand up in this House and say that I am wrong to raise that matter. I am within my rights because it is in the programme for Government. I am sorry. I am correct.

I call Deputy Eamon Ryan.

I said it was not a legislative matter. It is a matter of adjusting moneys within the Vote. Deputy Healy-Rae is perfectly entitled to raise it. I was just answering the Deputy's question.