On the 30 November 2009, Tick Talk Ireland received the following email:
"The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney T.D., has asked me to thank you for your further correspondence regarding Lime Disease.
I have been assured that leaflets entitled Protecting Yourself Against Lime Diseas will be made available at the entrances to visitors centres of our national parks. HPSE also intends to circulate documentation to the Parks Departments of the Local Authorities to raise awareness.
Thank you for your interest in this matter."
Yours sincerely
Darragh Scully
Private Secretary
I have to raise a few points with this in relation to the question & answer above - first the illness is called Lyme Disease (not Lime!) Second the department who made the leaflet available was the HPSC (not the HPSE) & third we see no evidence at all of leaflets being made available at entrances to visitors centres of our national parks (other than those expected to be downloaded by members of the public). I understand from Paul McKeown of the HPSC that an A3 poster was made available (as Ms Harney mentions above) but we have not received any confirmation from people visiting national parks of late that posters were showing anywhere. Members of the public may not even realise the dangers of Lyme disease (or may forget when out & about in the country) so a visual reminder is necessary to warn the public of the dangers as a health & safety issue.
I applaud the levels of awareness raised so far but we need to stick to accuracies of information AND follow through with promises made.
Jennifer O'Dea
Posted on 7 Oct 2010 8:48 pm
On the 30 November 2009, Tick Talk Ireland received the following email:
"The Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney T.D., has asked me to thank you for your further correspondence regarding Lime Disease.
I have been assured that leaflets entitled Protecting Yourself Against Lime Diseas will be made available at the entrances to visitors centres of our national parks. HPSE also intends to circulate documentation to the Parks Departments of the Local Authorities to raise awareness.
Thank you for your interest in this matter."
Yours sincerely
Darragh Scully
Private Secretary
I have to raise a few points with this in relation to the question & answer above - first the illness is called Lyme Disease (not Lime!) Second the department who made the leaflet available was the HPSC (not the HPSE) & third we see no evidence at all of leaflets being made available at entrances to visitors centres of our national parks (other than those expected to be downloaded by members of the public). I understand from Paul McKeown of the HPSC that an A3 poster was made available (as Ms Harney mentions above) but we have not received any confirmation from people visiting national parks of late that posters were showing anywhere. Members of the public may not even realise the dangers of Lyme disease (or may forget when out & about in the country) so a visual reminder is necessary to warn the public of the dangers as a health & safety issue.
I applaud the levels of awareness raised so far but we need to stick to accuracies of information AND follow through with promises made.
Yours with best wishes,
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