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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: What are the neurological symptoms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: I am impressed with what the programme is doing and the additional information that has been provided, although I found the opening statement a little box-ticking in nature. To echo Deputy Shortall, language is important from, for example, a health insurance point of view in terms of how a disease is described. If it is not a disease, one cannot claim for treatment. Dr. Ní Bhriain...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: Okay. Is long Covid an infection?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: What I was asking in the previous session was whether there are symptoms unique to long Covid. The impression I am getting is the symptoms, especially the most acute ones, were triggered by the original Covid infection. They do not seem to be unique in any way to warrant them being described as a separate entity as long Covid. Some of them may have worsened, etc. The people sitting in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: Is there any other medical umbrella term in the experience of the witnesses that is used in a similar way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: I could be wrong here so I am using very generalised language. As regards the diagnostic and statistical manual, DSM, which outlines what a disease is, etc., one of the basic requirements for a disease to be accepted as a disease, I think, from memory, is that it has to have a number of characteristics that are unique to it. It can have characteristics that are common to other diseases but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: 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...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: Alas, because my time is limited-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: What Dr. Ní Bhriain has just outlined there is for me a much more sympathetic, compassionate description than in her opening statement. On that notion of a constellation of symptoms and in terms of defining long Covid, have the witnesses ever experienced a disease or an infection that subsequently caused a constellation of infections or disorders or that could be characterised as an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: What is it?
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (18 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: 113. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if new mediation measures are providing a significant step change for resolving insurance claims nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16887/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: 123. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in each of the four Dublin local authority areas that have registered for the increased cost of business grant to date; when payments under the grant will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16886/24]
- Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: My role in this matter was quite small, but I would like to illustrate how hard the families worked on this. I was appointed Dublin spokesperson for my party in 2016. As a Dublin spokesperson, along with colleagues who preceded me in that role, it fell to me to meet the families, which I did on a number of occasions along with my party leader, who was leader of the Opposition at the time. ...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: I share and note the Taoiseach's concern articulated earlier in the week about protests outside the homes of politicians. The Taoiseach would have had no notice from me of the issue I wish to raise so I will happily to wait for a detailed written answer. What is the legal position about the wearing of masks and balaclavas at protests? Is there a legal position on it? Is it legal? How...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (23 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to consider allocating grants based on energy ratings for vacant houses, particularly in cases where the property was not vacant for the required duration to meet the requirements for the vacant home grant due to recent purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17677/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: The questions I wanted to ask have been asked, by and large. I had one about macular degeneration, the increase in that and the state of play in that regard. What were Vision Ireland's annual running costs last year and what is its principal source of income? How many staff does it have and how reliant is it proportionately on public goodwill funding and State funding?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: How many employees are there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: I did not realise that Vision Ireland was the biggest charity-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: Where do we stand with macular degeneration? Ten or 15 years ago we did not hear of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Services for the Blind and Vision Impaired: Vision Ireland (24 Apr 2024)
John Lahart: What is the age profile of people with AMD?