James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

This is indicative of the extraordinary attitude of a government that has no regard for the frail and old, which has been demonstrated in the effort to remove automatic entitlement to medical cards for the over 70s, cutting home help hours, closing care homes such as Loughloe House, Athlone, the threat to St. Mary's care centre, Mullingar, County Westmeath, and now potentially cutting the well earned pensions of our elderly citizens, which is leading to great anger.

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