Breeda Moynihan-Cronin (Kerry South, Labour)
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Question 118: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has met the Department of Social and Family Affairs to discuss his proposals on the provision of free travel facilities for Irish old age pensioners living in Britain; if this issue was raised with him during the course of his recent visit to London to meet Irish emigrant groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2770/05]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of whether the free travel scheme can be extended to older Irish people resident outside the State is one with which I am familiar and that has been raised with me, including at a recent conference for emigrant service providers in Dublin and again during my visit to London in December.

I refer the Deputy to a reply in the House on 15 December 2004 by my colleague, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, to a question on this matter in which he said that he will continue to examine carefully the issues involved.