I certainly wouldn't want to underestimate the complexity of what they're dealing with. Again, some of these people live in very remote locations. Getting access to any types of services on the health front, whether it's dental services or other nursing services, can be complex. Sometimes it requires them to leave their community to travel fairly long distances to get access to those services, so I wouldn't want to underestimate the complexity of the problem.
However, I think it is still incumbent on the department to try to establish what it is they want to accomplish through the program. They already have said that their role is to maintain and improve the oral health of these populations. If that's what they're trying to do, how are they going about doing it? How are they using the data that they have? What measures are they using to know whether they are making progress?
It would be a stretch to expect them to be able to totally close that gap in a short period of time, but you would like to be able to see some indications that at least they're moving in the right direction of reducing that gap, even though, again, they are faced with all of that complexity.