608 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether it is fair that when supplementary welfare assistance is awarded to a person in the Western Health Board in the County Mayo region for domestic appliances and furniture, these items are delivered to them from a firm in County Galway, that no local businesses can provide the goods, that it can be over 100 miles from these firms to their homes giving them no immediate back-up when the goods are faulty and that it is unfair on small, local businesses being squeezed out of the business; and if he will consider leaving the suppliers to be nominated by each local community welfare officer, as it always was. [17834/04]

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608 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her views on whether it is fair that when supplementary welfare assistance is awarded to a person in the Western Health Board in the County Mayo region for domestic appliances and furniture, these items are delivered to them from a firm in County Galway, that no local businesses can provide the goods, that it can be over 100 miles from these firms to their homes giving them no immediate back-up when the goods are faulty and that it is unfair on small, local businesses being squeezed out of the business; and if he will consider leaving the suppliers to be nominated by each local community welfare officer, as it always was. [17834/04]

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