Lucy Cronin
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No, no.
I texted in just to say that I have two children, 22, 25.
And as soon as I told them, I've told them already, as soon as they finish their college, that I'm packing their bags, I'll be ready at the airport for them and I'm sending them off to any country.
Because all I find here is all we're doing is existing week to week.
I'm fine.
I nearly have my house paid off.
I'm okay.
But they will never see houses.
They will never see, you know, the economy.
Everything seems to be dysfunctional.
I have a mother who she's in hospital now, a 96-year-old.
I'm a carer for her as well as I work part-time as well.
But what I'm saying is all we're doing is eating savings.
to live week to week in this country.
Everything seems to have, you know, shopping, fuel, everything.
And I find even my mother's on a trolley for two days.
You know what I mean?
So the healthcare is dysfunctional.
Carer's allowance stopped because you were on benefit.
You have to wait four to six weeks, you know.