John Dolan (Independent) | Oireachtas source

When I was listening to "Morning Ireland" this morning, I heard an item on the Heart Foundation and some research it had done on people with stroke. It was considering younger people with stroke. One of the startling and memorable statistics given was that one in four people with stroke is under the age of 65. We have a cultural fixation with the idea that stroke is a condition of older persons but it is not. There are children, young people and people of working age with that condition. It has huge ramifications for their families and for their work. It is a sweet but difficult example of many of the issues we need to face head on in respect of the work ahead of us on disability inclusion.