Mr. Brendan Lennon:

They offered a meeting in late August, which we will be happy to accept. As we said in our statement, and at the time that the statement was drafted for last Monday, we had been trying for over two years to secure a meeting with the Minister. We had considerable correspondence over and back, none of which addressed the core issue of this health inequality where people on low and middle incomes, because we are talking about a substantial amount of money, cannot access hearing aids. We have only listed some of the health risks associated with unaddressed hearing loss in our document, but there are many more.