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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure all third-level educational institutions provide free period products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16892/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I will stay on the issue of children for a moment. The last time we spoke, the Government was not accepting or recognising long Covid in children more generally. At the time, the NHS in the UK had just made that move. Does the health system now recognise that long Covid occurs in children?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that reflected in clinic provision? There is no space in those clinics for paediatric services.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: That would include anything post-viral, not necessarily long Covid.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Do we know the location of that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is Connolly. I will stay on children for a moment. In terms of the more holistic approach around services for children in education and all the things that make up life for a child, are there any support services for children who might be experiencing long Covid who are still expected to go to school every day, etc.?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Is Ms O'Connell aware of situations where some families are on reduced hours already or where they are requesting this and being denied?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: They are calling in sick. They are effectively not there, but they are not on reduced or part-time hours.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: It is a bit of a postcode lottery. As far as Ms O'Connell is aware, there have been no direct recommendations from the Department of Education on how to deal with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: After Covid, there definitely was a drop in attendance. This was for many. Some children found Covid very difficult. Would Ms O'Connell expect for Tusla to have a role in the decision-making or to be making recommendations to the Department of Education?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Ms O'Connell for that clarity. I will move on to the occupational injuries scheme. This is an area in which there is already good legislation around supporting people who have contracted illnesses through their workplace. It is a very broad spectrum. It is not that they do not recognise a broad spectrum; it is everything from nystagmus to poisoning. In Ms O'Connell's work, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If we were to get recognition, would Ms O'Connell envisage that recognition would be, let us say, pre-availability of the vaccine or that it would be kind of more far reaching than that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: If there was a recognition of long Covid under the legislation, would Ms O'Connell expect that it would be time limited to before the vaccine was available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: You would expect it to be along-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: Do we know what the rates are in teachers and medical staff?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am referring to before those later diagnoses because, obviously, we are not at the height of the pandemic now. I am trying to get a sense of how common it is now to contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: For clarity, Ms O'Connell is saying that while the vaccine obviously reduces the prevalence of the disease and the possibility of contracting Covid, it does not necessarily reduce a person's likelihood of contracting long Covid in any way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I am out of just out of time. Is Ms O'Connell aware of the HSE or any medical professionals in Ireland being involved in any research around long Covid internationally or with partners across the country?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses.