Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We are very interested in finding out where these blackspots are. We want everyone who wishes to avail of the senior alert scheme, SAS, to be able to access it. As I said, we will be pushing it out under a new advertising scheme coming out soon. We are also looking at counties with a low uptake as well. It is my understanding that once people have a landline connection they have access to this scheme. My own late mother used to use it. She never had to use it, although she used it accidentally a couple of times. She realised then that it worked and it provided great peace of mind. I am, therefore, very aware of its value. We are very eager to reach people who want to avail of the scheme but who perhaps do not think they can get it. On the technological side of things, my understanding is that we can reach everyone who wants it, based on the technology we have now. There are potential future uses as well for a kind of monitoring scheme, but this goes beyond the core aim of the senior alert scheme, which is basically to connect people who are isolated to the wider community.

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