Dr. John Lambert:

Absolutely. Even today, our health services have been cut back because we continue to admit patients to the hospital, we continue to have outbreaks of Covid in the hospital and staff out of work. All of our healthcare services continue to be impacted by Covid. For example, like I said one of the big gaps is that in the first year, we had a psychologist to support the patients, or staff patients, with long Covid. Those services have gone. In the long Covid plan for Ireland, at least the version published in September 2021, there was no provision for patients getting psychology or psychiatric support and that is a problem. Psychiatric services in Ireland were deficient even before Covid so it is going to be an additional challenge but it is not optional. We have a healthcare force here that is going to be affected if we do not start putting together some plans to get them rehabilitated and back to work.