asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs whether he is aware that solicitors, barristers, journalists, witnesses and others having business at Green Street Courthouse, are constantly handicapped and embarrassed by the lack of telephone facilities; and whether he will make immediate arrangements to install three or four telephones there.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Green Street Courthouse.
It is a necessary condition for the provision of public call offices that they should pay their way. It is considered that this condition would not be fulfilled in the case of a call office at Green Street Courthouse and accordingly one cannot be provided by the Department.
Telephones can, of course, be provided if some interested body undertakes to pay the rental or alternatively to make good any deficit on annual working.