Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2025-02-27
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Paul Lawless (AON), Mayo

We are now almost five weeks on from Storm Éowyn and many communities in County Mayo are still without communications. Ballinamore nursing home, for example, is still without a landline. There are many elderly people without a landline and it is causing difficulties around accessing emergency services and accessing pendant alarms, which run off the landline. Many people in Mayo are still without this service and it is causing major difficulties.
Days after the storm, the Tánaiste rather dismissively said communications were almost returned. That is far from the case in Mayo. What has been done in this regard? Can the Tánaiste please intervene to expedite the situation to return communications back to Mayo?

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Sitting date: 2025-02-27