Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

By a small extension to that, I was a teacher before I entered the Dáil, and we would often hear from special needs assistants, SNAs. I understand that they are in a different world but they are also nonetheless involved in the caring profession. Many people who work in that career have come to us to say that it is very demoralising.

Many of them cannot get mortgages. Have the witnesses' front-line colleagues struggled over the past two years as property prices and the cost of living have gone up? Are nurses struggling at the moment to raise loans with financial institutions to buy homes and to live near hospital environments?