Paul Coghlan (Fine Gael)

Where a person is in a nursing home, perhaps suffering from dementia, and has a large family, the family is not in a position to do anything about the house. Nobody can touch it. The parent is in a nursing home as a result of ill health or mental infirmity. It is ludicrous to expect that person to make a payment annually to the local authority. I echo Senator Maurice Cummins's appeal that this situation be specifically excluded.