Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I had to attend the Order of Business in the Seanad but I was present for the earlier discussion. The committee is trying to match what the witnesses are saying with what what we were told in the previous session and the people who come to us to say that they have Lyme disease and nowhere to go and it will cost them a significant amount of money and so on. I am very glad to see that in the conclusions of the written statement submitted by the IDSI it is stated that the tools to tackle Lyme disease in Ireland are readily available,that it can be manage within our country and that there is no need for patients to go abroad for diagnosis or treatment. The submission also states that a very small number of people are affected.