Seanad debates

Tuesday, 13 May 2003

I am not very good at public relations and neither are the health boards. The Department of Health and Children could use other means to let us know what it is doing. I obtained yesterday a book entitled Catch a Flickering Light, a collection of stories from residents of a day-care centre in Tuam, which is also a community nursing unit. These are beautiful stories, about – as the blurb says –"the truth and innocence and the tears of joy and pain". This publication did get publicity in our local media, but it is an example of the good things the health boards do and I welcome it. It is similar to what Jim Fahy used to do when he presented the "Looking West" programme, asking people about their stories. This is a very good example of what should be done to commemorate old people, and I hope that the elderly will be a priority for many years to come.

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