Results 1-20 of 385 for long speaker:Paul Murphy

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: There was a powerful briefing yesterday in the audiovisual room by Long Covid Advocacy Ireland and Long Covid Kids. We heard about the devastating impact of long Covid on some of the hundreds of thousands of people who were affected by long Covid in this country, the children who were unable to attend school every day and the adults unable to work. It is almost a year since this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Paul Murphy: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the very serious issue of long Covid, which I fear will be a pressing issue for our health service and our society in the coming years. Figures suggest that, worldwide, well over 10% of people who get Covid suffer some form of long Covid, and that a minority of them suffer a very severe form of long Covid that can continue for many months and even...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Murphy: My question is simple. Will long Covid be included in the terms of reference of the Covid inquiry? It is clearly important that if we are to come to a balanced assessment of mistakes that were made and so on, we do not look just at the short term but also at the long-term implications for hundreds of thousands of people, such as illness, isolation and inability to work. In that regard, the...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...it will become an even bigger issue. As the motion notes, there are likely to be well over 300,000 adults in the State who are suffering or have suffered from medical conditions associated with long Covid, based on an extrapolation of research done in the Netherlands. I have seen at first hand people I know who have been affected by long Covid and continue to be, and the debilitating...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports offered to those suffering with long Covid; if they are entitled to long-term illness benefit given the impact of long Covid on their health and ability to work. [14490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Jan 2023)

Paul Murphy: 1164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of funding provided to long-Covid clinics, per clinic, including details of funding spent on the long-Covid clinic itself and any funding that was spent on other, non-long-Covid related expenses, in tabular form. [63164/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Jul 2021)

Paul Murphy: 195. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to long-term Covid patients (details supplied) having difficulties accessing treatment and experiencing difficulties with employers; if he and or the HSE are providing or plan to provide support and treatment for those battling long-term Covid infections; if so, the details of the support and treatment; if he has considered...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (6 Jul 2022)

Paul Murphy: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE policy in relation to those with long-Covid giving blood donations; if there is a policy that long-Covid patients should not give blood; if so, if staff at blood donation centres are aware of this; and if measures are in place in relation to those who have undiagnosed long-Covid who have donated blood. [36326/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Feb 2023)

Paul Murphy: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if former patients of the now-closed Mater long-Covid Clinic (details supplied) will be accepted at alternative long-Covid clinics, irrespective of whether they are in the catchment area of the clinic in question, in situations in which no other long-Covid clinic is accessible to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7273/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Dec 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...a really terrifying story. Pete's family were told to prepare for the worst but he managed to recover, defying the odds. Like tens of thousands of others in this country, he is now suffering from long Covid. He described to me his brain fog, post-traumatic stress disorder and difficulty breathing. He still needs regular support, which he describes as essential and which he gets from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: 296. To ask the Minister for Health if he will take important steps to help parents of children with long-Covid, including an awareness campaign, the education of selected consultants and several specialist GPs to offer care to children with the condition, a communication to be sent to all GPs on the issue of long-Covid and the way to recognise it (details supplied); the steps that have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: ...of a Covid inquiry, which the Taoiseach was reported as saying will be set up this year and for which the terms of reference are being worked on. Will those terms of reference include the issue of long Covid? Unfortunately, this will be a growing issue. Approximately 10% of all those who get Covid are then affected by long Covid. A recent medical paper suggested that 65 million people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...dying every week. The Government, however, is acting as if Covid-19 is just gone away and is acting to remove a number of different supports from people from 1 July. On this Friday, for example, long Covid leave or special leave with pay is ending. People still have Covid and are still suffering the effects of long Covid but the Government is withdrawing that support. The Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: It is a week until the scheme of temporary special leave with pay for healthcare workers with long Covid is due to expire. This is a scheme for healthcare workers who contracted long Covid as a result of their work on the front line. It is due to expire in a week and there is still no announcement, as far as I know, as to whether it will be extended. These are workers who got a round of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Permanent TSB and KBC Bank (28 Sep 2017)

Paul Murphy: My question is how long it is vacant rather than how long the tenant stays in it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Paul Murphy: 968. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans for funding long Covid clinics; and the supports that are available for those suffering with long Covid. [14489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2022)

Paul Murphy: 240. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1817 of 8 September 2022, the reason those running the long-Covid clinics were not included in the discussion in relation to which hospitals were allocated and funded for long-Covid clinics. [47386/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Jul 2023)

Paul Murphy: 102. To ask the Taoiseach if he will ensure that long-Covid is included in the terms of reference for the Covid inquiry; and if he will ensure those advocating on behalf of people suffering with long-Covid are allowed to be core participants. [33598/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Minister of State. What people with long Covid say is that the current model of care is simply not working and action is needed to change it. The first thing to be done to try to stop more people having long Covid is to stop people getting Covid infections or reducing the number. We need to have education campaigns, an emphasis on ventilation and clean air, vaccination and...