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Roscommon-Galway TD Denis Naughten has urged the Government to reconsider its decision to terminate the special leave entitlement for frontline health workers who contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic and have since been unable to return to work due to long COVID symptoms.

Patients are now waiting an average of 15 weeks to access long Covid clinics in hospitals across the country, with the longest wait of 35 weeks for patients trying to access the clinic at Tallaght Hospital, local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten has stated.

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Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has expressed disappointment that Heritage Minister Malcolm Noonan TD has no plans to visit the community at Lough Funshinagh to see the environmental devastation for himself.

Recently released pandemic related data has found that six percent of adults in Ireland are living with self-reported symptoms of long Covid.

Over 4,056 people are in receipt of a disability payment from the Department of Social Protection because they were unable to return to work after their Covid Enhanced Illness Benefit payment ceased, it has been revealed following an analysis of welfare claims by local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten.

It is imperative for all those living outside our cities that there is a clear roadmap on how we can practically achieve the 51% national emissions reduction target for 2030 or else blunt policy instruments will be used that disproportionately impact on those living in our towns, villages, and rural areas, local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, stated this week.

South Roscommon was the setting on Tuesday morning as Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Heather Humphreys, officially opened a number of community focused projects, all of which were the beneficiaries of investment under the Government’s ambitious rural development policy, Our Rural Future.

Local Independent Deputy Denis Naughten has called for immediate action from Government to address the crisis situation where 11 local children have left primary schools with no provision made for their secondary education in September.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has told the Dáil that unless a State taskforce is established to address the barriers blocking the completion of flood relief works at Lough Funshinagh, on the western shores of Lough Ree, in the heart of Ireland, then many more communities across the country will face a similar crisis in the coming years.