Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1229: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress that has been made in honouring the programme for Government commitment to provide free broadband for older people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33165/10]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government included a commitment to expand the current free telephone rental scheme by providing for free broadband for older people. My Department has agreed that where people access the internet using a landline, the telephone allowance can be used to cover the cost of calls or internet usage up to the level of their allowance. In addition if a person wishes to subscribe to a bundled package for telephone and internet, the telephone allowance can be applied to this package.