asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when new equipment will be installed at the exchanges in Bracknagh, Tullamore, Edenderry and Birr, County Offaly, and in Portarlington, County Laois.
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New equipment is expected to be installed at the exchanges mentioned as follows: Portarlington by mid-1975; Bracknagh, Tullamore and Edenderry in 1976; Birr in 1977. Some extensions of existing equipment will be effected where practicable in the meantime.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the reason for the long delay in having a telephone installed for a person (name supplied) in Clonmel, County Tipperary, who is a community care nurse and as such is entitled to priority.
The application, which was received in November last, should have been accorded priority treatment. That has now been arranged and the telephone will be installed as soon as public wayleave consent for a section of pole route, applied for a month ago, has been cleared.
Will the Minister indicate how long it will take to have this telephone installed?
It is not entirely within my powers to say, as the Deputy will understand. Wayleave permission is needed from the local authority concerned, the Waterford County Council, for a section of pole route which has to be erected to provide the service. The application for wayleave was made on 22nd April. The wayleave consent should have been applied for earlier in the year. An error of judgment was made in this case, for which I should like to express regret to the Deputy and to the House.
Due to the fact that an error of judgement was made in this case, I would ask the Minister to give this matter his personal attention.
I certainly will.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will consider the erection of a public telephone kiosk at Carrigmahon, Monkstown, County Cork, to facilitate the residents of the area.
My Department are not at present providing kiosks in areas such as Carrigmahon where there is no post office.