110. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Social Protection if a new allowance will be introduced for older persons to meet mobile phone costs due to the abolition of the telephone allowance; her views on the fact that older persons are forced to spend excessive amounts of money telephoning social protection offices which deal with services for the elderly that have 1890 phone numbers and are excluded from mobile phone contracts; if she will consider taking steps to ensure that core social protection offices offer a contact phone number that is either local or national; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14294/14]

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110. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Social Protection if a new allowance will be introduced for older persons to meet mobile phone costs due to the abolition of the telephone allowance; her views on the fact that older persons are forced to spend excessive amounts of money telephoning social protection offices which deal with services for the elderly that have 1890 phone numbers and are excluded from mobile phone contracts; if she will consider taking steps to ensure that core social protection offices offer a contact phone number that is either local or national; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14294/14]

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