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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: More misinformation.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: No we did not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: We provided for €1 billion more, and you know it. That is a terrible answer to people who are having their procedures cancelled.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: You are telling lies about Sinn Féin's budget.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: It is pathetic and it is beneath the Taoiseach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I welcome all of the witnesses. Ms O’Connell mentioned that the previous session the committee had on long Covid took place in October 2022. This is correct. At that meeting, the HSE informed us the knowledge about long Covid was still emerging and evolving, as Ms O’Connell pointed out. The HSE stated that over time the services provided to sufferers would develop and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Ms Corey and Ms O'Connell. In her opening statement Ms O’Connell said that many of the long Covid clinics remain unstaffed or understaffed. There are staff but there is understaffing in most, if not all, of them. I am looking at the briefing document we got from the HSE, which speaks about the eight post-acute Covid clinics and the six long Covid clinics, and there is one...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: With regard to the centre of excellence and the one-stop shop that was promised, Ms O'Connell has said this is not in place. I do not see it mentioned anywhere in the opening statement from the HSE so I assume it does not exist and has not been progressed. What was Ms O'Connell's understanding of what that one-stop shop was meant to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Ms O'Connell for that. She mentioned GPs and in my first question about improvements, she said there are examples of GPs who have done the research in this area and are responding very well but she also said is not the case across all GPs. Has Long Covid Advocacy Ireland had any engagement with the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: It does and the committee should probably write to the ICGP to get an update from it on what training it has provided and pass that on to the witnesses to see if more can be done because that is an important area. My last question concerns the recognition of long Covid as a long-term illness. Yesterday, the Government announced the temporary special scheme for paid leave for healthcare...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I thank Ms O'Connell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Go raibh maith agat. The witnesses are all very welcome. They heard the testimony from the first session. The witnesses in earlier are people who are sufferers of long Covid and advocate for patients. Their experience has been slightly, or I would say radically, different from some of what I have heard said here, which is a bit alarming. I just want to start with the last session we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: When Dr. Bannan refers to a physical examination, what would this typically involve?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Would that be for all patients referred or would it depend on the symptoms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Okay. My next question relates to what was said earlier concerning a view from clinicians that symptoms improve within 12 months. I hope I understand correctly what was said. Has this been the experience with most patients, if not all? Is that what was being said?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: We need to be very clear on this point. Witnesses have come before us today who have had symptoms for much longer than a year. We all have people we engage with regularly, constituents, who would say their symptoms have existed for a long time. To be clear, then, there are patients who would have symptoms for years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: That was the point I was trying to make.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: Is there a breakdown of the percentage of patients the witnesses would say show signs of recovery within 12 months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)
David Cullinane: I am just talking about patients who have been through the clinics and who have seen improvements. Is there any data in this regard that can be shared with us? The witnesses might not have it with them here today, but I refer to data that could be shared with us.