John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not trying to offend either the previous speakers or the current ones. I am really trying to learn something. I think the previous speakers' fear is that it gets put with ME, Lyme disease and other things where some GPs and practitioners say it is all in people's heads and there is no evidence for any of this, despite the weight of evidence. There is something going on here all right that we need to be concerned about. That is as fair as I can be when summarising. However, in the HSE paper, the witnesses are saying that when they looked at these, they just turned out to be a more acute form of asthma, which was already there. That seems to be writing off the long Covid piece. That is how I interpreted that.