We want to ease Mum’s life before we lose her again

The family of a woman with Alzheimer’s disease have spoken out on their three-year wait for a housing adaptation grant.

The Mulhall family in Cork said they decided to go public about their mother’s plight after listening to Government ministers defending changes to the scheme and insisting that more resources were being made available.

It has emerged that a lack of funding to Cork City Council has created a backlog of up to six years, even in emergency cases.