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Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Seán Canney: ...s emergency departments before being seen by a doctor during the three-month period from July to September this year; recognises that: — the World Health Organization has defined the post Covid-19 condition, also known as long Covid, as a condition which occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, usually three months from the onset of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2019)

Gino Kenny: I wish to raise the long-term illness scheme. To most people's amazement, the long-term illness scheme has not been reclassified since 1970. This was 49 years ago, which is a long time considering that many conditions have been diagnosed since then such as severe asthma, rheumatoid arthritis or conditions like fibromyalgia. A strange situation pertains to fibromyalgia, which is a chronic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Lyme Disease: Discussion (28 Nov 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Sure. I have heard very little so far that contradicts previous statements. There might be a different emphasis, but we are accepting short and long-term possibilities, the potential for long-term infection and that treatment with antibiotics can work on long-term infections. We are also accepting that the cause might be something else entirely. What about long-term treatment with...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Unemployment Data (20 Feb 2018)

Regina Doherty: ...and second, through Pathways to Work to ensure that as many of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register, and in particular the long-term unemployed. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing long-term unemployment. For example, the most recent data show that the rate of long-term unemployment in...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (13 Feb 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Long term residency is an administrative scheme that was introduced in May 2004 and is focused on persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit / work authorisation / work visa conditions. Such persons may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be...

General Practitioner Services (16 May 2012)

Billy Kelleher: In the context of long-term illness, as far as I can ascertain in research, there has been no long-term illnesses added to the scheme since the mid-1970s. Will there be an extension of the illnesses that will qualify as long-term illness? Motor neurone disease, asthma, bipolar disorder and many others are not part of the long-term illness scheme. In the context of the roll-out of free GP...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (7 Feb 2008)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme Office Accommodation (14 Jan 2015)

Simon Harris: Under the Government Decentralised Programme announced in 2003 the Office of Public Works entered into a number of leases to provide office accommodation to house both temporary advance parties and long term permanent office requirements. Many of the short term leases (5 years or under) have been surrendered on completion of permanent office facilities; others have been extended at a reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (31 May 2016)

Paschal Donohoe: Information around the numbers of Full-Time Equivalents who are on continuous long-term sick leave across the Public Service is collected, where available, by my Department on an annual basis. Figures relating to long-term sick leave are not available in the Health Sector currently. Long-term sick leave for the purposes of these figures are defined as 'continuous sick leave of over 28...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (22 Nov 2016)

Mary Lou McDonald: The concern is for any reputational damage to the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General, which as Mr. Long is aware is a constitutional office. There is also a lot of angst in respect of reputational damage to NAMA. I put it to Mr. Long as the representative of Lazard that reputational damage accrues to himself also. With the greatest of respect to Mr. Long far from demonstrating...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (28 Apr 2009)

Noel Dempsey: There are 166 civil servants in receipt of long service increments in my Department. Long service increments are the last two pay points of the agreed pay scales. To progress to the first long service increment, an officer must complete three years satisfactory service on the previous point of the pay scale. To progress to the second long service increment, an officer must complete a...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (1 Nov 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Derelict Sites Data (25 May 2016)

Peadar Tóibín: 160. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of derelict and long-term vacant buildings there are here; the square footage that is long-term vacant and derelict; if there is any register of long-term vacant and derelict buildings; and his plans to require the owners of long-term vacant and derelict buildings to register their buildings with local...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising a very important issue that is affecting quite a number of people. I have tremendous sympathy for those suffering from long Covid. It is one of the reasons that during the height of Covid, when we had the lockdown, I was insistent on taking strong measures. It was not just about mortality. This was a deadly disease. When a person got Covid, it could lead to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Data (28 Mar 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...of these new jobs and other vacancies that arise in our economy are filled by people taken from the Live Register. To date, these policies have been effective in reducing unemployment and long-term unemployment in particular. The rate of long-term unemployment has fallen from a peak of 9.5% to 3.6% in Q4 2016. The actual number of people who were long-term unemployed in Q4 2016, at...

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...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with AIB (3 Sep 2013)

Pearse Doherty: That is fair enough, but members have not seen the letters. Consequently, I can only make suggestions because Mr. Duffy claims these 5,894 letters make up part of the long-term sustainable solutions. I put it to him that under the regulatory regime announced and imposed on his bank, it must be a long-term solution. However, a letter to a customer asking him or her to engage is not a...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (25 May 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...and County Leitrim; the change in the number of persons participating in the Back to Education Allowance Scheme during this period; the number of persons from these two counties who classify as long-term unemployed. Live Register figures for JA, Leitrim and Sligo Absolute and percentage change April 2012–April 2016 April 2012 April 2016 Percentage Variance Leitrim 2,344 1,902...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Unemployment Benefits (15 Apr 2015)

Joan Burton: ...who have lost work and are unable to find alternative full-time employment. The 2015 Estimates for the Department provide for expenditure this year on the jobseekers’ schemes of €3.01 billion. Long-term unemployment refers to people with continuous periods of unemployment extending for a year or longer.The Government’s primary strategy to reduce long-term unemployment...