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I think it would help if we were to insert in the Bill an amanuensis for the deaf and perhaps Moon Braille, which is the best thing for really elderly, very disadvantaged people at the moment in hospital. Without that, there will be no help at all. As deaf people, our immediate reaction when we do not understand something is to agree; we just say yes. It is the quickest way of getting away because you know very well the person will merely repeat it in the same tone of voice with the same words. You will not be able to lip-read it any better, which is the way in which 99% of deaf people understand others. I think that we will get a lot of deaths when people really do not have the agency to agree.