Mr. Ger Deering:

I would like to see that in some way they measure the person’s ability or need to be mobile. Those particular criteria apply to a certain group of people and they exclude an entire group of people who may be similarly mobile and who may have the same need for access to the grant. The application is a tick-box exercise so one either ticks one of those boxes or not. However, a significant number of people are equally immobile but do not tick those boxes. I would like the measure to look at what a person’s mobility is and what their level of need is, rather than-----