Frank Feighan (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Since Storm Éowyn on 24 January last, a huge number of people living in rural parts of my constituency and in the north west have no access to broadband or to landline and mobile phone networks. There seems to be absolutely no urgency on the part of the providers to rectify matters.

There are elderly people living on their own who have emergency contact buttons that do not work. They cannot contact friends, neighbours or relations. The Minister for communications needs to intervene with these service providers to get them to fulfil their obligations to people and to restore the services people need in order to call in outside assistance from entities such as ESB Networks. This should be done without delay.

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