asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when he intends to install a public telephone kiosk to cater for the needs of the residents of Keyes and Kennedy Park, Limerick.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Limerick City Kiosk.
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As stated in reply to a similar question by the Deputy on 12th April last, I believe that a kiosk will be required in the area when it has been further developed. So far, however, no natural centre for the area has emerged, and no shopping centre or bus services have yet been provided. It would not be practicable to select a kiosk site at this stage but development of the estate is being watched with a view to providing for it in next year's kiosk programme.
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that there are 600 houses in this scheme and no telephone kiosk is provided? We have been agitating for a bus service and our questions inquiring why the service has not been provided in that built-up area have been refused here. But 460 houses have been built in the area and the Parliamentary Secretary tells this House there is no need for a telephone kiosk.
The Deputy is making a speech.
I am telling the Parliamentary Secretary that Limerick has been neglected.
The Parliamentary Secretary does not accept that Limerick has been neglected.
The factories have proved it—closing down every day.
As the Deputy says, somewhere around 450 to 500 houses have been built there recently, which is proof that the place has not been neglected.