{"id":244648,"date":"2026-01-14T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244648\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:32:06","slug":"daly-criticises-lack-of-planning-for-dental-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244648\/","title":{"rendered":"Daly criticises \u201clack of planning\u201d for dental services"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Irish Dental Association says more funding, along with a new contract for dentists, needs to be negotiated for medical card patients.<\/p>\n<p>The group says less than one in four dentists are signed up to the scheme, and it has also called for a complete overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment fees for dentists were last increased in 2022, and the association says its ready to talk to the HSE about improvements and changes that are needed.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Committee on Health met this morning to discuss dental services in the healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna Fail TD for Roscommon-Galway Dr. Martin Daly is on the committee and says there is a serious lack of planning by the Department of Health.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Daly has been giving more details to Midwest Radio\u2019s Michael D. McAndrew\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DALYDENTIST.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DALYDENTIST.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish Dental Association says more funding, along with a new contract for dentists, needs to be negotiated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-244648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}