Ms Gr?inne Loughran:

What we see is that many older people get housing that is not adapted for them or is not suitable for their needs. We have had situations where an older person is living in social housing and cannot leave the house for want of a stair lift. They are struggling to live up a couple of flights in an apartment. The accessibility is the major challenge. Most social housing is not built to universal design and accessible standards. It might not be a case of people being put in the worst of the worst of anything like that but just from an accessibility standpoint, the housing might not be suitable.