Results 1-12 of 12 for lyme disease speaker:Brendan Griffin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Nov 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the position on improving diagnostics and treatment for persons with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46198/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Disease Awareness (8 Nov 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 311. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she is taking to warn the public of the risks of Lyme disease in national parks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46199/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (16 Oct 2018)

Brendan Griffin: 357. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for those diagnosed with Lyme disease to receive funding for treatment abroad in view of the fact that there is no treatment for the disease available here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (30 May 2017)

Brendan Griffin: 433. To ask the Minister for Health if the western blot test will be used to test persons for Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25472/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Griffin: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry who has been formally diagnosed here and in Germany as being a sufferer of Lyme disease has not received any further contact from the HSE since November 2016 despite having informed the HSE of the positive diagnosis at that time; if he will intervene with the HSE to ensure the person receives the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Griffin: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the reason diagnostics here for Lyme disease appear to be at odds with those of other countries such as Germany; the measures he is taking to ensure that persons with Lyme disease are accurately diagnosed; his views on cases in which persons with Lyme disease are being told in error that they are Lyme disease negative; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Mar 2017)

Brendan Griffin: 189. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he is making to make the public aware of the risk of Lyme disease; if he will increase public awareness of the methods of contraction, the symptoms, the treatments available and the consequences of not treating the condition; the amount the HSE spends annually on public awareness surrounding Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (10 Mar 2015)

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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 Jan 2015)

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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (14 Jan 2015)

Brendan Griffin: 591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will initiate a public information campaign regarding the causes, symptoms and treatment of Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49759/14]

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

Brendan Griffin: Can I go back to my constituent and tell her there is no way that if she is positive for Lyme disease, the labs in Ireland would have missed it on foot of the tests that were carried out? Could I confidently say that is what the witnesses are saying to her here today?

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

Brendan Griffin: I thank the delegates for attending. I have received a letter from a constituent on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry who believes she contracted Lyme disease when hiking in Killarney National Park. Kerry is one of the counties identified as high risk in that regard. The experience of the person in question has been absolutely appalling. Despite undergoing numerous tests in Ireland,...