asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a person (details supplied) in County Dublin will receive a transfer of telephone.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
256.
Within the next week or so.
257.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny.
Within the next six months or so.
258.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny.
About the end of this year.
259.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny.
Because of the volume of engineering work on hands in the district it is unlikely that the cabling necessary for the provision of service will be completed until about a year's time.
260.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as he applied a long time ago.
About the end of this year.
261.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny who applied four years ago as telephones are being installed in his area at present.
Service is being provided for earlier applicants in the locality at present. It is expected that service will be provided for this applicant within the next six months or so.
262.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs why a medical doctor who practises from his residence has not yet received a telephone even on a temporary line basis; if other doctors resident in the estate who are employed in hospitals have been given telephones; and the reason for any distinctions that may have been made between the applicant concerned and other medical practitioners in the estate.
It has not been possible to provide service for this applicant and some other medical doctors in the estate because of a lack of main cabling to serve the area. Cabling is expected to be completed during the third quarter of this year and service will be provided as quickly as possible after that.
No distinction is made between practising medical doctors in the provision of service. Two doctors in the estate, who were the earliest applicants in this category, were given service on the only available lines.
263.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the proposals his Department have for providing telephone service for those on the waiting list in the Cabra area of Dublin.
264.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will outline any immediate proposals his Department have to provide urgently needed telephones for those on the waiting list in Drumcondra/Glasnevin, Dublin.
265.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will outline any immediate proposals his Department have to provide urgently needed telephones for those on the waiting list in Marino, Dublin.
266.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will outline any immediate proposals his Department have to provide urgently needed telephones for those on the waiting list in East Wall, Dublin.
267.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will outline any immediate proposals his Department have to provide urgently needed telephones for those on the waiting list in Phibsboro, Dublin.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 263 to 267, inclusive, together.
The areas mentioned include most of the north Dublin city area. One of the objectives of the current accelerated telephone development programme is to get into a position by the end of 1984, if possible, where all applications for telephone service can be met promptly. In the case of the north Dublin city area, as in the country generally, this will involve extensive cabling works in all areas which it will take some years to carry out.
Major cabling schemes planned for the north Dublin city area involve factors such as trenching, laying ducts, pulling in cables, jointing, and distribution. Because of the number of different types of work involved it is not practicable to programme work in such fashion as would enable the information required to be given on an area by area basis. It is expected, however, that about 90 per cent of the existing waiting applicants in the areas will have been offered service by the end of next year and the balance of 10 per cent will be given service over the following year or so according as the remaining cabling, exchange, and so on, schemes required to meet them are completed.