Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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She is a very beautiful girl and I am delighted to say she will be in the Houses for a while.

Why do the older Irish living aboard have so many health problems? Can that be attributed to the fact that many Irish people who left the country had a Catholic background? I was struck by the fact that it was said many health problems stemmed from people not wanting to expose their private parts. That is sad because people are ill. Is that the psyche of older people who were reared in Catholic families? In my mother's final weeks, my two brothers had to bring her to the shower because she had Alzheimer's disease. I was struck by how she would have felt about that, but she did not know what was happening. We were very privileged to be able to have her at home and assist her.

What connections do the new Irish abroad have with the older population abroad? Mr. O'Dwyer might answer that.