Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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456. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with Lyme disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42247/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) of the HSE is responsible for the surveillance of notifiable infectious diseases such as Lyme disease.

The HPSC collects and collates surveillance data on a specific set of infectious diseases that are statutorily notifiable as a consequence of their clinical or public health importance. The number of cases of Lyme neuroborreliosis is included in the Annual Infectious Disease Statistics and the Weekly Infectious Disease Report published on the HPSC website (available at www.hpsc.ie/notifiablediseases/weeklyidreports/).

The table shows the annual totals of cases of neuroborreliosis notified to the HPSC: