Tracey Carroll

With Aviva Insurance.

Yes, we missed an appointment last week and now I have a following appointment that was cancelled for orthopaedic in Temple Street, which is actually really, really important.

So the knock-on effect now is obviously...

taking hand because people had to cancel appointments people couldn't attend appointments so now they have to regroup and ensure that those missed appointments are looked after so it pushes us further down the line so yeah we were impacted even at the weekend there was a blockade from Virginia outside Calvin right through into Navan so you know our first point of call if Willow becomes unwell is to Calvin Hospital and there's a concern then you know how do we get there

And not just us personally, I mean, I've spoken to many carers or people with children with disabilities or adults with disabilities or people looking for home support and their services were cut.

It almost felt like a mini pandemic again.

And again, it's always the vulnerable who are left, you know, begging for scraps or completely ignored.

And, you know, a protest, I understand, I really do understand, you know, the feelings of the farmers or the hauliers.

You know, because we're all living this crisis.

They're not the only cohort in society that are struggling with the cost of fuel prices, cost of everything, you know, groceries, heating your home.

We're all impacted.

But protest is one thing, but holding the country to ransom, which they did, had an impact on people everywhere.

It shouldn't have impacted.

I mean, the government weren't directly affected.

Their buildings weren't blocked.

Their constituency offices weren't blocked.

No, they were not doing it for us.

We are not in their thoughts at all.

I mean, my husband was in Belfast last week.

And he traveled the motorway.