asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs whether any applicants in Marley Court, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14 will be given telephone service on a priority basis.
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All applicants in the area will be given service at about the same time as part of a general clearance during the second half of this year when a new exchange at Ballyboden is brought into service. Some 25 applicants in the area would be accorded priority in normal course but provision of service for these too must await the opening of the new exchange.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when his Department will be in a position to provide telephone service for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin.
Service is dependent on the provision of additional cabling which, because of the volume of engineering work awaiting attention in the Dublin area is not expected to be completed for about a year.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs why a person (details supplied) in the south County Dublin area has not as yet been provided with telephone service despite the payment of the connection fee in early December 1980; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The delay arose because the cable to serve the applicant was found to be faulty when service was being provided. It is expected that this will be remedied and service provided within a month.
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andMr. Donegan asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if the UHF transmitter at Claremount, Carn, Cooley, County Louth which is designed to improve television reception in Counties Louth and Meath and which was scheduled to come into operation early last year, has yet to come into operation; and, if so, why.
I would refer the Deputies to my reply to a similar question concerning this matter on 20 February 1980. Transmissions on RTE2 commenced on 24 February 1981 and RTE say that full power transmissions on RTE1 and RTE2 are expected to commence in mid-May 1981 subject to the successful international co-ordination of certain technical characteristics of the frequencies to be used.