Ms Anna Drynan-Gale:

I concur with Dr. Denieffe that a cold home and being in a cold environment have a very detrimental effect, exacerbate a patient's other co-morbidities and make him or her very unwell. What Deputy Ó Cuív said earlier resonated with me. He described homes I have been in with dying patients. That is the cold stark reality of it. Patients are dying in cold homes. This is what Dr. Denieffe's study has shown empirically. The ask of the Government involves how we are going to address that and the elephant that is often in the room, which is the luxury of time. These patients do not have that. They do not have the opportunity to wait for lengthy application or approval processes. They do not have that time.