Mr. Seán Moynihan:

The reason we produce our statistical and ECC reports is to give people a sense of emerging needs. Of the people we assessed in the first quarter of this year, 25% were struggling with mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and loneliness, or dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A large cohort on the ground is struggling with these. Again, services may not have been developed and there may not have been an understanding that those in old age are as affected as the young.