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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Dr. Sheehan believes that Dr. Lambert is on a solo run and his view is inaccurate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Vice Chairman for putting up with me for so long as a visitor on the committee. Dr. Butler said that overseas treatment does not work. I am paraphrasing but she said that people who are desperate travel and are being fed an answer and that when people get treatment abroad, they get better because they were supposed to, not because of the treatment. Is that an accurate summation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is what Professor Butler meant but what she said was that people were being fed an answer, I think her words were that people were "feeding people an answer", that patients go abroad, get expensive treatment, and get better when the infection was ready to right itself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We will look at the transcript. I have a problem with that. I am not a physician and nor do I claim to be but from a human perspective and as a representative, ignoring or dismissing the patient experience as a placebo or as him or her being fed an answer is not a message I expect the witnesses would like to send out, given that 12 physicians or officials from the Department and various...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Have we another Chairman?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have not questioned the competence of anybody but in the line of questioning and discourse this morning, others have. The implication is that some people are practicing what other physicians believe to be based on inaccurate medicine. Those present are saying that long-term antibiotic use could be damaging and others take a different view. I say there were 100 publications but the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is contradictory.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Doctors differ.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (27 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 574. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will have a decision on their invalidity pension application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49123/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: After the election.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General has said he will consider undertaking a potential section 9 report on this matter. For what it is worth, the committee should ask him to undertake such a report. I know it is not within our remit to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is a matter for the committee. I certainly think we should make such a request, but the other members need to consider the matter too.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As a former Senator, can I ask that there be no giggling about the Seanad, please?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What about the seventh amendment of the Constitution, which was never acted on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What is the Committee of Public Accounts doing about that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is not my fault.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Before we finish up with the work programme, are we going to have a discussion about the person we had in last week in private session?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: To decide on our course of action.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Nov 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Twenty lashes.