Professor William Binchy:

Are they different? Let us say there are two friends of the Deputy. The first friend has a health condition that is impacting on them. The circumstances are that the friend is suffering from a health condition. The second friend is suffering because of a situational condition - an interpersonal family situation where the family has broken down. The Deputy says they are different. Of course those are different cases but they are not different in the issue arising, which is what the Deputy would do, as a friend, in those circumstances.