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"Mr President, I would like to thank you for your kind judgement in this issue.
I wanted to raise a small but important point about our hearing. Perhaps in this Parliament we should be careful about our ears and listen carefully. I attended the 50
anniversary of an organisation in Ireland called DeafHear and I was quite astounded to learn – and I read from this memo – that it takes 10[nbsp ]years for an individual who believes they have a hearing problem to do something about it. The consequences in terms of isolation and the impact on their socialisation are quite enormous. It is also quite frightening to know that one third of acquired hearing loss is actually preventable. People around Europe need to understand that they can actually protect their ears and that one in three people over the age of 60 have a significant hearing loss.
We are all heading in that direction, and I am using this one-minute speech to ask those of us in this House who use our mouth and our ears in our daily work, to perhaps tell our citizens about the importance of looking after their health."@en1
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