Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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421. To ask the Minister for Health when the Health Protection Surveillance Centre final report on Lyme borreliosis will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25919/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre (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 of Lyme Borreliosis in Ireland. These strategies will be published in a Final Report. The inaugural meeting of this group took place on May 6th 2015.

The initial work of the Lyme Borreliosis Sub-committee will involve a survey of laboratory methods for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis in Ireland, the development of Lyme borreliosis guidance for general practitioners, the publication of medical media articles to highlight diagnostics and laboratory methods relating to Lyme borreliosis available in Ireland for general practitioners, and ongoing work in drawing together the Final Report of the Sub-committee.

Given the extent of this work, it is intended that the group will have completed its work and will have made the draft Final Report available for consultation by the end of Quarter 2 2016.