Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

The Minister said that the Competition Authority had problems with the issue of discounting. She repeated that there were legal difficulties in pursuing it. What had the Competition Authority to say about Eircom's acquiescence to the State's request? As Deputy Ó Snodaigh said, and I said it earlier, we asked the Minister to pursue this line some months ago and we want to see results in order to alleviate the threats that elderly people experience by virtue of these cuts.

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