John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I impress on the Minister the urgency of this. We tend to do an awful lot of reports and we do not learn from other countries. I have highlighted the fact that France seems to be leading the way but Canada has a similar approach to this disease. In New York the same thing is happening, with a cross-departmental approach to solving the issue of Lyme disease. If all of these countries are taking roughly the same initiative and if the European Union is debating having a similar approach then surely we can force as a matter of urgency that the report be completed and the appropriate actions out of that report to be taken. I urge the Minister not to allow this to go on for long more. Tick Talk and others recognise the work being done by the Minister in this area but they point out that time is hugely important to them and ask the Minister to recognise this in the context of action being taken.

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