Ms Elaine Grehan:

I would like to respond to Deputy Cairns's question on what the Government can do to help things improve in the next 12 months. We need core funding to be provided to the Irish Deaf Society in order for us to carry out research on deaf people's lived experience. ISL support can mean supporting people who would like to be involved in political life and campaigning. There needs to be funding for that. Those are the two areas I would comment on.