Mr. Brian Crean:

Senator Daly referred to cutbacks in advocacy services for deaf people and how that was reopened. Northern Ireland has a much smaller population of deaf people than we have here.

There is a much smaller population of deaf people in Northern Ireland than here. There are 26 employees in the advocacy service for the deaf community there but down here there are three. There are not enough and we need much more to be done. Northern Ireland definitely has better advocacy support for deaf people.