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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: So will the Department be presenting what Senator Colm Burke referred to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Colm Burke seemed to be referring to a document that nobody has. I am interested in finding out whether that document was generated specifically for the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Will I have an opportunity to ask the authors of that document about it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is great.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Had Dr. McKeown symptoms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is reasonable to assume that Dr. McKeown was not symptomatic.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not a permanent member of the committee. Was the invitation to today's meeting sent just to the chief medical officer's office or to everyone present?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know that. I was just-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is great. It is a very impressive line-up. Outside of this room, I co-chair the cross-party action group on Lyme. When we requested a meeting with the chief medical officer, neither he nor his deputy was available. This array of wonderful people was certainly not available. There is one person-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Excuse me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Would the Senator like-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is a wonderful-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Presumably, having spent 16 years around this place, I know what I am entitled to say when I have the floor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is a very impressive array of people, and it is difficult not to take the view that they wanted to be on message on this and to kill this discourse about Lyme disease and the mythology of there being issues surrounding this. Is Dr. Lambert a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland, IDSI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Was he invited to be a party to the document the witnesses sent to the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The document was sent to Dr. Lambert.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As I am not from a medical background, all I can say is that the document seems to have included consenting voices as opposed to seeking out the dissenting ones.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have not had an opportunity to ask Dr. Lambert about this but he certainly did not know of its existence earlier, judging by the responses to Senator Colm Burke's questioning. Given the discourse whereby we have constituents contacting us to say the opposite of what the witnesses are saying about the evidence of international treatment, perhaps this is a case of the placebo effect among...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No, but as the deputy chief medical officer of the State, I would hope Dr. Glynn would have some input into the matter. He pointed out that the ICD is just a dictionary and is not a set of clinical guidelines or anything else. How does one get an entry into the WHO dictionary for what are chronic conditions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What does it look at?