‘Unacceptable’ that autistic boy faced 10-year wait for dental care – Taoiseach

It is “unacceptable” that a six-year-old autistic boy was told he could be waiting up to 10 years for urgent dental care, the Taoiseach has said .

The case of Tiernan Power Murphy from Co Waterford was raised in the Dáil on Wednesday.

Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said the boy needs to have three teeth removed and has been living “in severe pain” since last October.

“Tiernan lives in such daily agony that he can barely chew food or sleep, and his father Eamon has described the effect of all of this on his little boy,” she said during Leaders’ Questions.

“He says ‘he is usually the best in the world, usually the happiest fellow. Now to see him like this, not eating properly, afraid to eat because it hurts to chew, screaming and throwing himself to the ground, hitting himself, it’s horrible for him’.

“No child should be left in such a terrible, traumatic situation, and no parent should have to watch their child endure this agony.”

Ms McDonald said…

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