132 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether investments in dental businesses that were made in the period 2003 to 2007 were based on assumed annual turnover figures dating from that period; his further views on the outcome of the November 2010 survey of dental practices conducted by the Irish Dental Association, which shows that practice incomes have fallen by 35% to 40% nationally this year, and if he acknowledges that 70,000 fewer dental procedures were conducted in this State to date this year than last year because of changes to the PRSI scheme; if he further acknowledges the very high costs associated with dental practice commencement during the period 2003 to 2007; if the State plans to assist pertinent struggling young practitioners with borrowings from banks in which the State is a shareholder via debt forgiveness or renewed credit arrangements that are affordable; his further views on whether, notwithstanding distressed credit issues, the existing practitioners offer the best hope of partial finance recoupment; his views on creditor-financier liability in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47229/10]

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132 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether investments in dental businesses that were made in the period 2003 to 2007 were based on assumed annual turnover figures dating from that period; his further views on the outcome of the November 2010 survey of dental practices conducted by the Irish Dental Association, which shows that practice incomes have fallen by 35% to 40% nationally this year, and if he acknowledges that 70,000 fewer dental procedures were conducted in this State to date this year than last year because of changes to the PRSI scheme; if he further acknowledges the very high costs associated with dental practice commencement during the period 2003 to 2007; if the State plans to assist pertinent struggling young practitioners with borrowings from banks in which the State is a shareholder via debt forgiveness or renewed credit arrangements that are affordable; his further views on whether, notwithstanding distressed credit issues, the existing practitioners offer the best hope of partial finance recoupment; his views on creditor-financier liability in this context; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47229/10]

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