James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. My next question concerns old-age homelessness. I have seen a particular rise in people over the age of 75 becoming homeless. A gentleman came into my office the other day who was 81, single and living alone. In the three years that I have been in politics as a councillor and now as a Deputy, I have come across increasing and more frequent situations where landlords want to sell their properties. Of course, the people living in those properties are given their notice. Have the witnesses seen a rise in those statistics? Is it just something that I am seeing in my own area or is there a noticeable increase in the issue? As the witnesses can appreciate, for all of us here, it is something that is deeply disturbing on humanitarian grounds.