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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

...have comprehensive data - also including stuff like how it is impacting employment and how many people are able to return to work, how many people need to access disability allowance or invalidity pension and how many people have been forced to retire - these are all points that will inform us. If we have that comprehensive information to see where the trajectories are, then we can plan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

...long Covid is. We need recognition of it. If the Government were to recognise long Covid as an occupational illness, that would help enormously the people applying for disability and invalidity pension.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

...has exhausted treatment options and what the prognosis is, but there is no prognosis for long Covid. That is another issue. When people are applying for a disability allowance or invalidity pension, the onus is on them to prove they have a disability and that it is likely to continue for at least 12 months. In the case of long Covid, people have absolutely no idea how long it will last,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: ...it possible to answer the question as to whether this condition will persist for more than 12 months, in which case he or she is entitled to be considered for payment of disability allowance or a pension?