Michael Ring
Ceist:123 Mr. Ring asked the Minister for Health and Children when he will introduce a scheme to cover the monitoring fee costs for medic alarms to elderly people or allow the fee to be paid by way of a grant to the relevant community alert groups in view of the fact that many elderly people are not actually getting the alarms as they simply cannot afford the monitoring fee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21833/00]