Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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That is fine. To go back to the issue of Covid, one of the issues I am finding at present is that quite a lot of people living on their own, who stopped contact with many people during the pandemic, seem to have still maintained that routine. It is one of the things I am a little frightened about, especially for those people who do not have any immediate family. Many of them are in their late 60s or early 70s but have still not reconnected. What should we be doing to try to help people like that? It is a growing problem. I am a little taken aback by the number of such cases I have come across in the past six months.

I wonder if the representatives have any dealings with that kind of scenario. I know this topic is a bit off the area they are dealing with, but is it the case that some of the people who might end up needing full-time care would not have ended up in that scenario if it was dealt with now?