asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware that there is a desire that the public telephone at Kilcoole, County Wicklow should be situated for convenience in a kiosk outside the post office; and if he proposes taking any action in the matter.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Kilcoole (Wicklow) Public Telephone.
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There is already a telephone street kiosk in Kilcoole and a public telephone in the post office. The provision of a second kiosk is not warranted and removal of the existing kiosk to the position suggested would be unlikely to suit general convenience as well as the present arrangement.
Is it not implied in the question that the Minister might consider moving the public telephone in the post office out of the office and into a kiosk where people could speak confidentially?
I do not think it is clear from the Question exactly what the Deputy had in mind. There is a kiosk in the village about 300 yards away from the post office. I do not know whether Deputy O'Higgins was asking me to have the kiosk already there moved to a point outside the post office or whether he wants the public telephone in the post office moved outside into a kiosk.
I suggest the Minister should consider the problem of people being embarrassed by having to speak on a public telephone without a cabinet inside the post office.
I shall have examined the matter of having a silence cabinet fitted in the office.
Or shifting the telephone outside into a kiosk in the street?
That is a separate matter. I shall have it looked into.
Thank you.