426. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake to review the decision to discontinue the telephone allowance; the implications this decision has had on old age pensioners and persons living alone in rural isolated areas; if she will give due consideration to an alternative system or an exemption or an allowance for persons living alone who have monitored phone alarms or panic buttons and who rely on a landline telephone connection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29863/14]

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426. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will undertake to review the decision to discontinue the telephone allowance; the implications this decision has had on old age pensioners and persons living alone in rural isolated areas; if she will give due consideration to an alternative system or an exemption or an allowance for persons living alone who have monitored phone alarms or panic buttons and who rely on a landline telephone connection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29863/14]

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