Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank all of the witnesses for their presentations. I am particularly interested in Dr. Lambert and his expertise. I thank him very much for all of the information he has given.

My most recent contact with Lyme disease was when I saw a woman packing bags in SuperValu a couple of weeks ago in Castlebar. She explained she was doing it to raise money for her daughter who was chronically ill with Lyme disease to get the treatment she needed and which she was obviously being denied. I have since had further correspondence from somebody else with Lyme disease and I find it extremely disturbing that people are being dismissed and laughed at by well paid clinicians in hospitals and told, more or less, that they have a mental illness and to go home because they are suffering from depression or whatever, without any blood tests or research being done to identify what their condition is. That is absolutely appalling. I am not a permanent member of this committee, but I have taken time to attend today's meeting for this reason.

Was there a research centre in Limerick that did some work on Lyme disease?