Results 1-12 of 12 for lyme disease speaker:Billy Kelleher

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Services Provision (11 Sep 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 850. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with Lyme disease are eligible under the Cross Border Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37095/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Infectious Diseases (21 Jun 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the name, contact details and the location in which persons can be tested for Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29160/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Training (30 May 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 385. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners and other medical professionals receive regular training on Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25269/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (24 Jan 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 401. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a date to meet with a group (details supplied) to discuss Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2586/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: ...between the accreditation systems in Germany and Ireland? Is the laboratory in Germany acting independently? Many people have told us that they were diagnosed in Germany as having chronic Lyme disease. Is it the view of the delegates that the accreditation system in Germany is not up to scratch or that some laboratories there are acting outside internationally accepted accreditation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: I apologise for being late. I had something else on. I welcome the delegates. The joint committee has discussed Lyme disease on a number of occasions and varying and contradictory views have been expressed by medical professionals and advocacy groups. We are trying to get to the bottom of the issue. We have met people who have Lyme disease and they often claim that traditional medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Billy Kelleher: Okay. I will ask a few questions. Why are there such disparities between the varying views held? I refer, for example, to the view within traditional medical science on testing for Lyme disease. Why is there not a more uniform opinion on the efficiency of the serologies of the western blot and ELISA test methods? Is there still a doubt within traditional medicine about people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and particularly for sharing their personal experiences with us. The more I read about Lyme disease and the more I have heard about it through the awareness campaign that the witnesses are engaged in, the more confused I become about the actual process of diagnosis. Is it a very difficult disease to diagnose or is the problem a lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Prevention and Treatment of Lyme Disease: Discussion (21 Nov 2013)

Billy Kelleher: I asked that question because I read somewhere that blood testing can sometimes yield false results whereby people are diagnosed as having Lyme disease when actually they are carrying the antibodies to the disease. In that context, I am wondering if blood testing sometimes gives false indications of the prevalence of the disease. I ask for clarity on that question. Is it a notifiable disease?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (22 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 560. To ask the Minister for Health if he is confident in the testing procedures for Lyme disease here in view of the fact that many of the cases that tested negative here tested positive when carried out in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44587/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (22 Oct 2013)

Billy Kelleher: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the treatments and assistance available to Lyme disease patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (2 Oct 2012)

Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health if lyme disease sufferers are eligible for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41731/12]