Ms Catherine Cox:

I wish to add two things. Ms Duffy mentioned the cost of care in a home. Just to give that figure again, the study we did shows that the cost of caring for someone with a disability is an additional €244 per week. The other thing is that in the programme for Government, there were 18 commitments made to family carers as to what it would do to improve their lives. We reviewed that and did a scorecard on it just late last year, and not one of those 18 were fully achieved. However, the one that was nearest to being achieved was the pension one. We absolutely need to see that over the coming weeks and we would welcome that. Again, for family carers, as Ms Duffy said, it is now. It is for carers here today. It is this year and next year. It is not three or five years. It is today and tomorrow that they need to see these changes.