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Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

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...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Joan Collins: A campaign on my.uplift.ieseeks to fund long Covid multidisciplinary clinics. It was initiated by Miriam Cullen, who is in the Public Gallery with other long Covid patients. I thank Deputy Naughten and the Regional Group for using Private Members' time to discuss this serious issue. The current HSE plan for long Covid medical support is inadequate. It proposes only eight post-acute Covid...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Mary Butler: I welcome the opportunity to discuss long Covid health services and I thank the Deputies for tabling the motion, especially Deputy Naughten who has raised this issue continuously in the House for the past 12 months. A Private Members' Bill was tabled last night on home care, which I was delighted to attend and speak on, and I am here again to discuss long Covid. These debates are important...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Paul Murphy: ...it will become an even bigger issue. As the motion notes, there are likely to be well over 300,000 adults in the State who are suffering or have suffered from medical conditions associated with long Covid, based on an extrapolation of research done in the Netherlands. I have seen at first hand people I know who have been affected by long Covid and continue to be, and the debilitating...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Regional Group for tabling the motion on long Covid. I am pleased to be able to contribute to the debate because I have been contacted by many people who are unwell. Their lives have been turned upside down. They have gone from being fit and healthy to being sick and exhausted. People are searching for answers. They want their lives and their health back. Those people...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

John Brady: Long Covid is a very serious and debilitating illness that is impacting on tens of thousands of people throughout the State. It is being widely ignored by the Government and across the board. I welcome the report published on Monday by APC Microbiome Ireland - a research centre based at University College Cork - in conjunction with UCC and the long Covid advocacy group. The report shows...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Thomas Pringle: The issue of long Covid is very serious and I fully support the call in the motion to fully staff post-Covid clinics, to establish a multidisciplinary public health team to review and manage long Covid care in the population, and to develop the rehabilitative and recovery programme designed to meet the needs of those experiencing long Covid. The effects of long Covid are extremely...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Frank Feighan: I welcome the opportunity to discuss long Covid health services and I thank the Deputies for tabling this Private Members’ motion. I am responding to the motion on behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the Government. I am aware that long Covid is having a devastating effect on people. The Minister for Health, the Government and myself are committed to...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The word "debilitating" has been used in a few speeches. From the few people I have known, both through my office and in the community generally, who have suffered from long Covid, that is precisely the word. It has laid them completely low. It is quite a serious illness. Previously very energetic, active people who were very involved in the community struggle to get out of bed or maybe...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Michael Lowry: ...with emails and calls. Each person who contacted me told his or her own harrowing story. Many have been suffering since the first wave of the virus back in 2020 and none of them know how long their suffering will last. In Tipperary alone, 670 people are certified as unable to work due to long Covid. It is estimated that 330,000 adults have been impacted by long Covid nationally. Many...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: I acknowledge the support of my colleagues in the Regional Group. The reality is that many patients with long Covid are not being believed. The motion provides some official acknowledgement that they are being listened to. In fairness to most Deputies, they have not recognised this issue to date because patients have not come to them directly. I want to thank Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh and,...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with colleagues. Sinn Féin will support this motion on long Covid. I thank its authors, the Regional Group, and its proposer, Deputy Naughten, for the work he has done in this area over the past number of months. This is an area that the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health has dealt with on a number of occasions. A number of very important witnesses have...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion and acknowledge Deputy Naughten's work in this area over some time. He certainly stuck with it for a long time, as indeed have other Members. Unfortunately, the Minister for Health has not responded to this. It seems as though the Government is hell-bent on sidelining long Covid. As such, any opportunity to highlight issues...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Mairead Farrell: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Naughten as an rún seo a chur chun tosaigh inniu. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach. The first time that long Covid was highlighted to me was approximately two years ago. When I heard about it, it really knocked me for six when the woman in question detailed how much it had impacted on her life. Ever since then, I have raised the issue...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...Group does not have Private Members' business very often so an awful lot of thought and care go into choosing the issues deemed to be of importance. A thorough debate in the Dáil on this issue is long overdue. People suffering from long Covid are fast becoming one of a number of forgotten elements of the Covid pandemic. The pandemic is still with us in many ways. We hope we...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I am going to read from an email I received from a constituent of mine whose sister has long Covid: I am writing in relation to a motion being debated by the Dáil on Wednesday of this week. The motion calls on the Government to take immediate steps to provide the supports needed by those suffering from Long Covid, to establish professional Long Covid hubs and to acknowledge the fact...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank an Teachta Naughten and the Regional Group. I also thank the advocacy groups which have stood up for people with long Covid and made the world listen when many people were being told to cheer up and get over it. Those groups have organised an email campaign. I am sure many of the Teachtaí here have heard the harrowing stories of their local constituents. I wish to...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Gino Kenny: I commend the Regional Group and Deputy Naughten for his continued work on long Covid. We are three years into this pandemic. The world did not know the term "Covid-19" until three years ago. Since then, this virus has claimed millions of lives, affected hundreds of millions of people and caused economic chaos across the world. Many of us who got Covid-19 have recovered fully, thankfully....

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Matt Shanahan: I thank my colleague, Deputy Naughten, and Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, who have done a significant amount of work on this issue. Without doubt, long Covid is here to stay. It is a medical syndrome; there is no doubt about that. As the Minister of State observed, it is very difficult to see where the treatment regimes are going but we have to build a comprehensive service and put it in place...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Verona Murphy: Before I get into long Covid, I call on the Government to launch a full independent review into the handling of Covid. We need answers to things like what happened in our nursing homes in 2020; how our ICUs across the country were under resourced and what improvements we have seen as a result; why the HSE lacked capacity despite all of the billions pumped into it; how the Government, the...