asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware that the proposed change of letter deliveries in Kanturk will impose a great hardship on the traders, particularly, and the people, generally; and if he is prepared to reconsider the matter with a view to allowing the present arrangement stand.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - KANTURK POSTAL DELIVERIES.
Under the proposed change in the hours of delivery and collection of letters at Kanturk correspondence will be available to private box holders at 10.15 a.m.; the ordinary delivery will commence at 10.30 a.m.; and the despatch will not take place until about 4.35 p.m.
Any improvement in this service, which it is considered cannot be regarded as unsatisfactory, could only be made at considerable additional cost that would not be warranted.
Arising out of that question, I would like to ask is the Minister aware that it would be absolutely useless to instal private boxes in a place like Kanturk, for the reason that there is only one arrival per day of mails, and all the mails come in in that arrival? The delivery is in the ordinary way, and if private boxes were taken and the owners visited the Post Office fifty times in the day after they would find them empty, so that that particular concession is of no use whatever to anybody in Kanturk.
What the Deputy is saying is a matter for debate and cannot be admitted as a supplementary question. He has said quite enough.
I would like to ask if the Minister would reconsider the matter in view of the facts I have stated. Private boxes are a different thing in Dublin from what they are in a place like Kanturk.