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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 5 May 1927

Vol. 19 No. 21

ORDUITHE AN LAE. - DENTISTS BILL, 1927.

I would ask the permission of the Dáil to introduce a Bill entitled:

An Act to make provision for the registration and control of persons practising dentistry or dental surgery and for other purposes relating to the practice of dentistry or dental surgery and the persons engaged in such practice.

This Bill ought to have been introduced at the same time as the Medical Bill, 1927.

Is there any intention to press forward this Bill?

I cannot say at the moment whether it will be possible to get this Bill beyond the Second Stage, but we have been pressed to introduce it. It is not so important as the other Bill, and I do not think it would be so necessary to get it through. I would not like to be pressed further than that and I will give further information on Wednesday.

I hope the President will make up his mind that it is not to go through. If we look around us we can see that the House is not doing its work properly. It is very unlikely that it will do it any better next week, or the week after, or the week after that. What I fear is that the President is counting upon that laxity to get the Electricity Bill through. I think we ought not do more than intimate to the people interested in the Dentists Bill that it represents the present Government's intention and leave it at that.

Leave given to introduce Bill; Second Stage ordered for next Wednesday.

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