Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In the Minister’s opening statement, he spoke about the SEAI. I know the Government is really encouraging these grants and work is being done through contractors, but in recent months, while we are encouraging people to take up the grants, elderly people have come to me who would have got a small grant maybe 15 or 20 years ago who now go for this grant and are not allowed to get it. The Minister knows himself that winters are getting harder. There is a lot more rain. People are now - thank God - living to a longer age and I am having battle after battle trying to get that redone. I ask the Minister to bring that up as an urgent case.

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