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Seanad: School Enrolments: Motion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank colleagues in Fianna Fáil for tabling this motion. Being in elected politics since 2004 at council and Oireachtas level, last year was the most difficult I have come across with regard to school enrolment pressures. This coming year also looks somewhat challenging. Hopefully, it will not be as bad. However, I had not experienced this before and certainly not to this level....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I thank the Chair. I welcome Ms O'Connell and her colleagues from Long Covid Advocacy Ireland. I have to leave at around 10.30 a.m. to go to the Seanad for a matter and to chair that session. I will be back after that. The testimonies LCAI provided this morning and in its submission are quite difficult. I can only imagine the impact that long Covid has had on sufferers and their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: How many of those people are in the LCAI? Does it have a membership list?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: The HSE will be before the committee later. Its opening statement mentions that its interim model of care "is broadly in line with other models internationally." It further states the HSE has, "Six Long Covid clinics [that] are operational and receiving patients, with each clinic supported by an interdisciplinary team with expertise in the management of Long COVID", that it has filled 53.6...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Has the LCAI received any testimony, even anecdotally, of people who have had positive experiences and benefited from attending the clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Ms O’Connell stated that she has spent hours on the phone with patients listening to stories of disbelief, dismissal, minimisation, misunderstanding and gaslighting. I presume this is from professionals and, perhaps, some family members and work colleagues. How upsetting is this for sufferers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Are sufferers more predominantly from the earlier waves or from throughout the period of the pandemic? Is long Covid more prevalent from earlier in the pandemic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Different people function differently, and there are very high-functioning individuals. I spoke to a lady from another part of the country who contacted me in advance of this meeting. She used to run marathons and do triathlons. Now she cannot do so. I would call this person highly functioning terms of being energetic prior to Covid. It obviously impacts at different levels and different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: I welcome the team. On the FADA survey, they told us that 49,642 people were invited to take part. How were they invited? How were they contacted or identified?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Of those, 4,671 responded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Would it be the case that those who suffer from long Covid would have been more inclined to respond than those who had not had any medium- or long-term issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: In the context of the 53.6 whole-time equivalents who were hired for the Covid clinics, what disciplines would be encompassed by a typical team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Are the members of those teams working exclusively on long Covid or are they also involved in other areas within the hospitals?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Has the recruitment embargo impacted on the filling of positions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: The HSE has stated: "It is worth noting that for many the referrals to the Post-Acute Covid Clinics, symptoms originally attributed to Covid are, in fact, explained by other specific Respiratory diagnoses." These are such as asthma and sleep apnoea. What sort of levels are we talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Were they symptoms that came post-Covid? Was Covid a factor in -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Do you think that Covid caused or had an impact on them developing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Is there a need to enhance the geographical spread? Letterkenny was mentioned as an example in the north west. Is there a need to expand the geographical coverage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: In a similar vein, the team spoke about fatigue and the cognitive issues, attention deficit resulting from chronic fatigue. That is the chronic fatigue that came about because of Covid, so they are all connected, if you like.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Seán Kyne: Does that have an impact in the context of diagnosing long Covid? Is there a reluctance to diagnose long Covid because some specialists are waiting to see whether, even though something may be Covid-related, it is asthma, sleep apnoea or whatever?