Dr. Siobh?n N? Bhriain:

Dr. Bannan will be able to come in on that. He has already said that the overall trajectory is towards improvement. To really estimate the effect of long Covid in Ireland, we are planning an epidemiological study. The field work for that is starting now. The point of that is to determine the current health status of people who have been infected with Covid-19. I can give the Deputy a much more detailed briefing on that and on our plan outside of this meeting but it is very hard to estimate. There have been multiple studies but they have been done in multiple populations including people who have been hospitalised, people who were in ICU and people who were not hospitalised. It is very hard to say.