Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is é an lá inniu an chéad lá Bealtaine. Will the Taoiseach join with me in highlighting and supporting 1 May as World Asthma Day? The Asthma Society of Ireland informed me that there are 15,377 asthmatics in Tipperary alone who are living with the condition and that one in five children in Tipperary has asthma. Will the Taoiseach encourage - he is very good at this no matter what colour socks he wears or what he tweets on his social media accounts - all parents and indeed anyone who may suspect that they have the condition to take immediate steps to obtain potentially life-saving information from organisations such as the Asthma Society of Ireland, the HSE, or anyone else?

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