Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The household benefits package has been depleted so much that there is no longer a telephone allowance. That was not supposed to happen. The allowance does not just cover telephones, but also, as Deputy Troy mentioned, panic alarms. It provides senior citizens security at night. That pendant is the one item they speak about.

The Government was elected to office in full knowledge of how serious the economic situation was. The manifestos of both parties-----

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