Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

ALONE made the point in its submission about safer homes and basic provisions such as the housing adaptation grant. Again, when the officials were in, the point was made that it would not be unusual for ourselves as public representatives to make an application for a housing adaptation grant and that kind of simple stuff. I gave the example of a man who was looking for a ramp to get a scooter in so that he would be able to get out of the house and live independently. He died before he got that. I am dealing with a man at the moment who is dying. He was released from a step-down facility after getting operations done. He cannot get into the bath and there is no shower. The local authority will say that it does no longer has facilities so it does not do that. These are all things that are not necessarily tied to the legislation but holistically we are talking about care for older people and these are the issues. If someone cannot get into a shower or a bath, what do they do? Do they wash at the sink? That is something many of us of an older generation will remember but -----