asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware of the urgent need, due to increasing population, for public telephone facilities in the Ballinlough and Glasheen Road-Magazine Road-Wilton Road districts, Cork, and if he will take immediate steps to provide telephone kiosks in these districts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Telephone Kiosks for Cork.
In Cork, as elsewhere, telephone kiosks are provided in the districts where they are most needed, and the order of priority is arranged in consultation with a special subcommittee of the Cork Corporation. The Department is at present engaged in the erection of eight kiosks at locations agreed under the latest programme. When more kiosks come to be provided, further consideration will be given to the sites mentioned by the Deputy.
Does the Minister realise that the two districts I have mentioned are recently becoming very much built up and are occupied largely by young married couples, and that in a great many cases there has been great hardship caused at night in connection with summoning doctors for young children as the result of the lack of telephones?
We will consider the application in conjunction with the conference which has been arranged with the Cork Corporation.