asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he is prepared to amend the scheme of free telephone rental for certain pensioners to include a special provision for the estimated 27,000 pensioners living alone and receiving the £1 supplement but who do not have a telephone.
Written Answers. - Telephone Rental Scheme.
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As the basis of the scheme which will come into operation on 1st April, 1978, is to subsidise the cost of a telephone rental, it is not clear what the Deputy has in mind in asking to have the scheme extended to persons who do not have a telephone.