Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My own Department has 78 people in receipt of illness benefit with a Covid-related certification. Covid-related claims account for 0.6% of all illness benefit claims that were awarded so far this year. As well as illness benefit, my Department provides an invalidity pension and a disability allowance scheme for those who cannot work due to an illness or disability. That includes those who have not recovered following a Covid-19-related illness. I do not have statistics for the number of persons on these schemes who are suffering from long-Covid as there are often multiple conditions in the application process. My Department is available to try to support people through the invalidity pension and through the disability allowance if that can be done.

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