asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the reason for the delay in providing a public telephone service at Meenacross, Glencolmcille, County Donegal.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
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The Department agreed to provide a kiosk at this location on the basis that the county council would idemnify them against any loss in its provision and maintenance. The council's approval to the site selected is awaited.
228.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will provide a public telephone kiosk at Derrylaghan, County Donegal, as a suitable site is available from a local person (details supplied).
Subject to Donegal County Council indemnifying my Department against any loss involved in the provision and maintenance of a kiosk at Derrylaghan, County Donegal, as they had proposed to do, one will be provided there at the site referred to which has already been selected.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a public telephone kiosk will be erected at Carrickfin, Annagry, County Donegal.
It will be provided as soon as possible after Donegal County Council approves the site selected and indemnifies my Department against any loss in its provision and maintenance, as the council have proposed to do.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a transfer of telephone service will be effected for an applicant (details supplied) in South County Dublin, and the reasons for the delay in providing this service which was first promised in mid-1976.
Service will be provided when the cabling works on which provision of service is dependent have been completed within the next six months or so. The reasons for the delay in providing service are as set out in reply to a question on 11 October 1978; the big volume of other urgent cabling work to be attended to in the Dublin area has prevented attention to this scheme earlier than now scheduled.
231.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if a telephone service will be reconnected for an applicant (details supplied) in County Dublin whose service was disconnected some years ago.
The cable pair used to provide service previously for the applicant has since been used for another applicant. It will not, I regret, be possible to provide service again for an applicant referred to until major cabling works have been carried out next year.
232.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be restored to a self-employed subscriber (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been without service for six weeks.
Service has been restored.
233.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for an applicant (details supplied) in County Dublin.
On the basis that site development work is completed, it is expected that service will be provided in the second half of this year.
234.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when an automatic telephone exchange will be provided in Belmullet, County Mayo.
In about three years.
235.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the up-to-date position regarding the provision of a public telephone kiosk in Gleneely, County Donegal.
It is expected that a kiosk will be provided there within the next six months or so.
236.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by telephone subscribers in the Curragh and Kilbrew areas of County Meath who are without proper telephone service due to a problem with the telephone wires at Rath Cross, County Meath, and if so, if he will indicate how long this problem has existed, the action he proposes to take on the matter and when service will be restored to full working order.
The overhead lines serving the subscribers concerned have been subject to increasing interruption over a period. They are being replaced by underground cabling and the work will, it is planned, be completed within the next six months.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for an applicant (details supplied) in Dublin who requires a service for medical reasons.
It will not, it is regretted, be possible to provide service until an underground cabling scheme, on which provision of service is dependent, is completed next year. Provision of service for this applicant and for some others in the same area has been delayed by the need to replace some cable which was extensively damaged by a third party after it had been installed last year.