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      <title>sean mc glone [Signature #106]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 02:27:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs ALYSON FLETCHER [Signature #105]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:01:18 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ray Mc Grath [Signature #104]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ray Mc Grath, Ireland<p>The reduction in carer hours is a mathematical equation that&#039;s meaningless in a world  where people  should come first</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 05:43:31 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Age Action Ireland [Signature #103]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Age Action Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland<p>Age Action is very concerned at the impact which this scale of cuts will have on those who need home help.  We are seeking a meeting with HSE management to establish how the cuts were decided and how people were informed that their service was cut.</p>

<p>Age Action is currently running the &quot;Protect the Dignity of Older People&quot; pre-Budget petition campaign.  The closing date for signatures is 5pm today (Nov 19).  It will be presented to the Government tomorrow.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Patricia Conway [Signature #102]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 8 Nov 2012 11:25:53 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ted twomey [Signature #101]</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 04:16:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>sandra jesson [Signature #100]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[sandra jesson, Swords county dublin, Ireland<p>Disgracefull after all the pre-election promices made. Makes no economic sence 18euro for non profit agencies as against 23euro for profit agencies and the profit going out of the country. I would like to ask James Roelly can he add a six year old wouldnt have a problem with the maths. 5 euro extra of tax payers money being spent with the for profit agencies per head. The maths dont add up. Would love an explanation from James Reilly.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ciaran Kelly [Signature #99]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ciaran Kelly, Leixlip, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:33:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Maggie dunne [Signature #98]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Maggie dunne, fermoy, co cork, Ireland<p>our clients need the home help service.  to cut more hours will cost the state a fortune in added nursing and old age home fees</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 03:58:27 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Aidan Matthews [Signature #97]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Aidan Matthews, Dundalk, Other, Ireland<p>come on get real lets look after our own these cuts are cruel</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 02:13:26 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Daniel Callanan [Signature #96]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Daniel Callanan, Ardfert, Co. Kerry, Ireland<p>Have a heart.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 01:49:40 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous [Signature #95]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:54:39 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr donie brady [Signature #94]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 12:51:13 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Jude Hider [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Rosaleen Hickey, Ireland<p>Shame on Government</p>]]></description>
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      <title>John Murphy [Signature #90]</title>
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      <title>Mr Sean McNally [Signature #89]</title>
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      <title>Ms Jacqui O' Sullivan [Signature #88]</title>
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      <title>Mr Caoimhin OhIceadha [Signature #87]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:49:03 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mr Paul O'Prey [Signature #86]</title>
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      <title>R&eacute;ada Cronin [Signature #85]</title>
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      <title>Ms Aisling O'sullivan [Signature #84]</title>
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      <title>mrs patricia mackie [Signature #83]</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 3 Nov 2012 11:22:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Kealan Flynn [Signature #82]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 07:37:45 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Geraldine Kendall [Signature #81]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Geraldine Kendall, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 04:36:48 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Lisa Nelligan [Signature #80]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Lisa Nelligan, Wicklow, Ireland]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Bryan Conlon [Signature #79]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Bryan Conlon, Cork, Ireland<p>Stop making cuts to those vulnerable people who had nothing to do with the mess the country is in at the moment.  They are such an easy target.  There are other much more lucrative targets that you need to &#039;man up&#039; to and tackle.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 2 Nov 2012 01:05:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Walter Campbell [Signature #78]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 1 Nov 2012 05:05:43 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Miriam Arundel [Signature #77]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Miriam Arundel, Schull, Co.Cork., Ireland<p>The cuts are going to cause fear and uncertainty to many people who live on their own, especially in isolated areas, without family or neighbours to keep an eye on them. Many of those people who are now in receipt of home help, will end up in hospital, at a much greater cost to the country. Apart from that extra cost, it must be said that the majority of them would prefer to stay in their own home if at all possible. Forget about the ipads/tablets or whatever for the TDs as they will probably be left in a drawer some place, and use that money for the home helps.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Monica Cahill [Signature #76]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Monica Cahill, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:43:32 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Anonymous [Signature #75]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Ireland<p>If this is what you want to do, cut home help hours, repay it by opening up &#039;community&#039; hospitals to the community ie - more beds - and stop taking people&#039;s assets to pay for it.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2012 05:09:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Bettina Pech [Signature #74]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bettina Pech, Sligo, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 12:25:37 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Mary O'Callaghan [Signature #73]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Mary O&#039;Callaghan, Cork, Ireland<p>Please support this worthy cause and STOP Mr. O&#039;Reilly&#039;s nonsensical approach to the vulernable clients and frontline staff in our communities Now.  Enough Is Enough!!Thankyou</p>]]></description>
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      <title>anna burton [Signature #72]</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:25:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>claire knowles [Signature #71]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[claire knowles, cork, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:52:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms maggie wilton [Signature #70]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms maggie wilton, schull, co corkl, Ireland<p>I think that the homehelp service needs to be reviewed so that those who can contribute financially do so according to their means, this may help us to keep this valuable service for all.  It should also be extended on that basis to all needing short term help after coming out of hospital and not just the over 70&#039; s. The over 70&#039;s are not the only ones who are vulnerable at times.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr John Bowen [Signature #69]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr John Bowen, Ireland<p>wihtout Ellie, my granny would be in a home!<br />
she is the enjoyment of her day!<br />
JJ.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Timothy O Shea [Signature #68]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Timothy O Shea, Clonlara, Clare, Ireland<p>We, the undersigned call on the Irish Government, the Minister for Health and the HSE for a reversal of the cuts already made to the home help service and an immediate stop to further cuts of 450,000 hours proposed by the end of the year, in order to leave some of the most vulnerable people in our society in the safety, security and dignity of their own homes.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms Elizabeth Ewing [Signature #67]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:55:10 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Anonymous [Signature #66]</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:24:42 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Brian Crowley MEP [Signature #65]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Brian Crowley MEP, Cork, Ireland]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:29:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Catherine Griffin [Signature #64]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Catherine Griffin, Riverstown, Glanmire, Ireland<p>My Father is 87 who suffers from a myriah of physical difficulties relies on his personal carers from the HSE to get him up each morning, wash and dress him, toilet him in the afternoon and put him to bed at night.  We don&#039;t ask the carers to do any household tasks. My 84 year old mother who also has her own health issues stuggles to cook wash and keep everything going.  I assist every way I can to ensure they can stay living at home.  Regrettably I live and hour and a half from them.   We rely desperately on his personal carers to cope.  We are not alone and many families are in the same position. Please, please reverse this decision.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Florence Newman [Signature #63]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Florence Newman, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland<p>Home Help an Essential Service.<br />
Rural Ireland is pretty bereft at the moment to say the least. Home Help offers essential personal care, emotional support, security, human contact to our elderly and disabled.<br />
It keeps people in their own homes and communities. It would be a detrimental blow to community life to lose hours. It is a hands on and practical service. Getting clients out of bed, washed, dressed, and given correct nutrition and allaying isolation, loneliness and depression. It would be a false economy to reduce this service. A society is defined by how we look after our less able members. The Senior Citzens set up this Country. They had tough times. Great loyalty to their families and Country. They did not generate this current abyss.<br />
To cut Home Help hours is actually immoral and will not have positive outcomes. Policy makers too will experience old age and vulnerability. Exercise Wisdom and govern this country with some Heart and Spirit. The Bank debts are a red herring globally. Break the Trance. Long live our elderly neighbours and friends and the Home Help Personnel. This Service will never wane or be reduced. Because Good Sense will prevail. Peace and Blessings.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Maria OLoughlin [Signature #55]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Maria OLoughlin, Dublin 2, Dublin, Ireland<p>With so much waste and inefficiency across all systems and sectors in this country, there is something morally bankrupt and disgusting about removing aid from people who have already lost so much and who will now be left struggling to maintain their human dignity. We are not a civilised country if we do this.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Patrick T. MacDonnell, Schull, Cork, Ireland<p>My wife  having been diagnosed with metastatic secondaries in her liver four weeks ago following numerous operations for Ca of colon came home from hospital for terminal care. She also had long standing MS and had been in a wheel chair for many years. Without the help of the Home Carers it would have been impossible for her to remain at home. Their care and consideration helped to make her last three weeks of life bareable for her myself and our children. The total wages of the Home Carers were I suppose under 250 euros during this period. This must be compared to the cost of a hospital bed for this length of time which would have been, as you are well aware, many multiples of this sum. I think your policy of cutting Home Care is finacially unsound and ethically wrong.  To be able to look after and care for my wife of 50 years with the Home Carers help in her last few weeks of life was a privalage and one which I wish others to have the opportunity to have.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Denise Travis, Desborough, United Kingdom<p>This service must be saved. It is vital to the elderly and vulnerable people in our communities and their families who need it most. How can a daughter look after her husband and young family if her time is spent worrying if her elderly father has actually managed to get out of bed made himself breakfast,got washed and dressed without falling? Or is he still lying in that same bed unable to do this without the assistance he needs and will stay there until his daughter can finally get to him after taking her children to school? Please answer this question Taoiseach!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Philip Race, Rushden, Northants, United Kingdom<p>This is criminal</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Johanna Long, Waterford, Ireland<p>My mam had an hour and got cut by 15 mins today! Nearly went through the roof when i saw it this morn!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Elena Trivellato [Signature #41]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:15:22 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mattia Leoni [Signature #40]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:14:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Theresa Herlihy [Signature #39]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Theresa Herlihy, Ireland<p>without homehelp sevice,alot of the elderly,will have to leave their homes and go<br />
to hospitals,alot of the elderly dont see any<br />
vistors,only home help people call to them,</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Joan Giller, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland<p>No more cuts that are going to affect the most vulnerable in our society PLEASE!!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Eleanor Bowen [Signature #36]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:56:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Kerry O&#039;Driscoll, Desborough, United Kingdom<p>It is appalling that this service is undergoing cutbacks-the most vulnerable people in our society and their families who so desperately need this service are the ones that will suffer,allow them the support and assistance when they need it most in their lives.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:19:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Patricia Coogan O&#039;Dell, Ballydehob, West Cork, Ireland<p>Any civilised society should be judged on how its most vulnerable are treated, and we will all age and all of us at some point will need help of some kind. Do as you would be done by and sign and support this very important campaign. Don&#039;t just discuss it either- write t relevant people- remember the squeakiest hinges get the oil!</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Kate McCarthy, cork, Ireland<p>I would not have been able to have looked after my mother without the help of the fantastic home helps.  It&#039;s totally disgusting what is happening in this country.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, Leap, Co. Cork, Ireland]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:03:17 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[John Handley, SCHULL, West Cork, Ireland<p>This is such a short-sighted proposal and will eventually lead to greater cost, not forgetting the distress to the vulnerable....</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Kerrie Liao, Bandon, Cork, Ireland<p>Home Help is vital to the community</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:51:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Terence Crofton, Ballydehob, Cork, Ireland<p>You are cutting back on the very people who can least afford these cut-backs.</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[mr Billy Hegarty, Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland<p>Its the only part of the HSE that works LET IT ALONE</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Denis Bowen, west cork, Ireland<p>my mother has just had her home help hours slashed by half and she is almost 90 years old. this is totally unnacceptable, these cuts MUST be reversed immediately</p>]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Bernadette O Brien, Limerick, Ireland<p>Our carers are worth their weight in gold. They are not appreciated for what they do. Pls think of yourselves when u are old &amp; feeble &amp; needing help. Old age comes to us all &amp; da retired people deserve help &amp; respect &amp; da country couldnt run without our carers.</p>]]></description>
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