Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My point is that there is going be huge growth in the number of people over 65 in the next ten years. It is going to go from 640,000 up to 1 million. The big issue is the challenge about having the numbers of people to provide the support. In the past 12 months when we had full employment, there were great challenges for every organisation to get people to provide the services. That is going to come back. We have to take that into account. Therefore, the disability sector is going to have that challenge.