Results 181-200 of 235 for lyme disease

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Disease Incidence (2 Feb 2016)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre of the HSE is responsible for the surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases such as Lyme Disease. The Scientific Advisory Committee of the HPSC has established a Lyme Borreliosis Sub-Committee, the aim of which is to develop strategies to undertake primary prevention in order to minimise the harm caused by Lyme Borreliosis in Ireland. The Terms...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Derek Keating: 993. To ask the Minister for Health the number of diagnoses of Lyme Disease here in recent years; the number of diagnoses for Lyme Disease that were missed, in view of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; his views on the matter; his further views on the quality of testing here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31410/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (25 Jun 2015)

Dara Calleary: 169. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to have Lyme disease added to the long-term illness scheme. [25500/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Disease Controls (16 Jun 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Éamon Ó Cuív: 929. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when deer were introduced to the national park in Letterfrack, County Galway; when Lyme disease was detected in the deer herd; the steps being taken to eradicate this disease from the deer herd; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23621/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Administration (26 May 2015)

Dara Calleary: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if Lyme disease will be added to the long-term illness scheme. [20861/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases Incidence (6 May 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 311. To ask the Minister for Health if training on Lyme disease and its effects on children and adults will be offered to general practitioners and public health nurses, as part of their continuing professional development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17406/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (28 Apr 2015) See 3 other results from this answer

Tom Fleming: 263. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients who test positive for Lyme disease in other European Union countries are not given access to treatment here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16386/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (28 Apr 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Lowry: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Joint Committee on Health and Children met on 21 November 2013 to discuss the treatment and prevention of Lyme disease; if his Department received any findings, recommendations or reports from the joint committee; and the proposed response to Lyme disease. [16608/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Apr 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Michael Healy-Rae: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on the issues raised with regard to the testing, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, since the hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children in December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13962/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (10 Mar 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the standard approach to treating Lyme disease, Lyme borelliosis; the way this compares to other countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10325/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Disease Awareness (3 Mar 2015) See 3 other results from this debate

Dan Neville: ...for people who travel abroad, in particular for those who participate in mountaineering and outdoor activities. They can return home feeling ill and sometimes it is difficult to identify that Lyme disease is the cause, as the Minister outlined. I welcome the fact awareness week raised awareness of Lyme disease. The Lyme disease group appeared before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on...

Topical Issue Matters (3 Mar 2015)

Michael Kitt: ...the need to bring rent certainty to the private residential rental market; (23) Deputy Niall Collins - the need to address the dramatic rise in repossession orders before the courts; (24) Deputy Dan Neville - the need to address the issue of Lyme disease; (25) Deputy Robert Troy - the plans to reform the system of guardian ad litem; (26) Deputy Ruth Coppinger - the sale of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Michelle Mulherin: 39. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment that is available in the State in respect of a person who is diagnosed with Lyme disease; the tests conducted to establish such a diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2330/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (21 Jan 2015) See 1 other result from this answer

Michelle Mulherin: 84. To ask the Minister for Health the test that is performed in the State under the public health system to diagnose a person for Lyme disease; the location at which the test is performed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 Jan 2015) See 2 other results from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 590. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a full review of the diagnostic approach to Lyme disease in view of numerous examples of unsatisfactory patient experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49758/14]

Fourth Report of the Constitutional Convention on the Dáil Electoral System: Statements (18 Dec 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: ...perspective on being a Teachta Dála. We do not sell the committee system well or advocate enough for it, however. We need to do that more. For example, today the health committee held two passionate meetings on Lyme disease and cosmetic surgery. If we did not have a committee system, we would not have heard testimonies about the effects of both. Equally, without the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014) See 28 other results from this debate

Regina Doherty: Notwithstanding the arrows being thrown around with regard to particular institutions, how would one conduct a test for Lyme disease if there were no antibodies? The witnesses have spent the past number of hours explaining that one will get a diagnosis if one is testing for the disease itself or the body's reaction to antibodies. How can somebody go to Timbuktu and get tested and receive a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Disease Surveillance (22 Oct 2014)

Leo Varadkar: The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) of the HSE is responsible for the surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases such as Lyme Disease. The HPSC is presently involved in establishing a Lyme Borreliosis Sub-Committee with the primary aim of examining best practice in prevention and surveillance of Lyme Disease and to develop strategies to undertake primary prevention in order...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Awareness (30 Sep 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 352. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide help and advice to persons with Lyme disease; the information available through his Department and the Health Service Executive regarding this disease; his plans to meet a group representing those with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36605/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Awareness (24 Jun 2014) See 1 other result from this answer

David Stanton: ...Minister for Health the progress made by the scientific advisory committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre of the Health Service Executive to establish a group to review awareness of Lyme disease; if this group has now been established; if so, the composition of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26716/14]