Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The money is making its way out but the problem is the vehicle for getting it out. Many of these people about whom I have been speaking, the artists, have only the van beside their house, or maybe in a garage. They cannot avail of rates reductions because they do not have a rateable building. They are mobile. There are people in many other sectors in similar situations - milkmen, lorry operators and other one-man shows. They have been failed in this. If these people are over 66, which many of them are, they have been cut off from any payment. That whole cohort needs to be examined.