asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone kiosk will be provided in the Abbey, Clontuskert, Ballyleague, County Roscommon.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
535.
The provision of a telephone kiosk at this location is not considered warranted at present and it is not proposed therefore to provide one there.
536.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will state, in view of the fact that engineering work laying cables is progressing in Faughart Parish at present, when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth as houses on either side of this applicant are being connected.
It is expected that service will be provided for the person named within about a year. It has not been possible in the time available to research the reference to other applications. If the Deputy will furnish details of the applications referred to including names and addresses further inquiries will be made.
537.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Finglas, Dublin 11, who has been waiting almost five years for the provision of service which is urgently required.
Within about six months.
538.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the reason his Department cannot arrange a transfer of a telephone for a person (details supplied) in Dundalk, County Louth.
Telephone service cannot be provided for the person named at his new address until necessary cabling has been carried out. It is unlikely that the necessary cabling can be completed for about a year because of the volume of engineering work on hands and requiring attention in the Dundalk area.
539.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
Within about a month.
540.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will provide a second telephone kiosk for Taghmon Village, County Wexford, in view of the massive increase in population there due to the county council and private housing development there.
The existing kiosk at Taghmon Village is considered adequate to cater for the needs of the area. It is not proposed therefore to provide an additional kiosk at Taghmon at present.
541.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when persons (details supplied) in Finglas, Dublin 11, will have their telephone transferred to their new address as they have been waiting now for four years and the person in question is a member of the fire brigade.
Service will be provided as soon as possible but it is unlikely that the necessary cabling will be completed for about a year.
542.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware that three extensions on a telephone number (details supplied) have been out of order and have been reported for the last two months, without apparently any action being taken on them; and if, in view of the employment implications, he will now give this matter his most urgent attention.
Service will be restored as soon as possible but this may take a week or so because of the large number of faults on hands.
543.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for persons (details supplied) in Skerries, County Dublin, who have already paid the installation fee and advance rental.
Within about a month.
544.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who paid the installation fee in February 1982.
Within about a month.
545.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin as he has been without service for some weeks.
Service has been restored.
546.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if the building of the telephone exchange at Dunshaughlin, County Meath, was included in the construction programme undertaken by the Government in 1979 to combat unemployment; if so, why it will not be operational until the end of 1983; when work commenced on the exchange; the work involved; the work done so far; and the work remaining to be completed.
Provision of a new telephone exchange building at Dunshaughlin was included in the accelerated telecommunications building programme launched in March 1979. Construction of the building at Dunshaughlin commenced in April 1981 and was completed, on target, in March 1982.
As indicated in the reply to the Deputy's Question No. 478 on 24 June 1982, the spare capacity at the existing exchange is expected to be adequate to meet requirements until the new exchange becomes available about the end of next year.
547.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Skerries, County Dublin, who applied some three to four years ago.
Within about a year.
548.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone will be transferred for a person (details supplied) in Skerries, County Dublin, who applied some three years ago.
Within about a year.
549.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the action he proposes to take in order to correct the interference in TV reception which is being caused by the new post office mast in the Mervue area of Galway city.
The corrective action to be taken where there is interference with TV reception is a matter primarily for RTE.
550.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a computerised directory inquiry service will be installed at Galway city telephone exchange.
The service is partly in operation and is expected to be fully in operation in about three weeks.
551.
(Dublin North-Central) asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if a person (details supplied) in Clontarf, Dublin 3, was appointed postmistress at the address listed; and if so, the date of appointment or alternatively if any appointment has been made.
The person in question was not appointed. An appointment was made on 10 November 1981.
552.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the reason for the delay in installing a telephone for a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and when a telephone will be installed.
It has not been possible to provide service for the person named so far because of the volume of engineering work on hands and requiring attention in the County Cork area. It is expected that service will be provided within about six months.
553.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone will be transferred for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
Within about six months.
554.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs whether he is aware that the telephone of a person (details supplied) in County Cork has been disconnected despite the fact that (a) a dispute existed over the amount of the account alleged to be due (b) over 75 per cent of the disputed sum had been paid a month previously by way of good faith (c) the subscriber is a widow in her 75th year and in poor health and (d) correspondence took place last month with him on the problem; if he will take immediate steps to ensure that service is restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
It is regretted that the subscriber's telephone was disconnected while she was in correspondence with the telephone accounts section. The subscriber's service, which was withdrawn on 11 June, was restored on 9 July.
555.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
Within about four months.
556.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kerry.
Within about six months.
557.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be restored to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin as he has been without a service for some time now and needs a telephone for business reasons.
Service has been restored.
558.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be restored for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin as he has been without a service for some time now.
Service has been restored.
559.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when it is expected that a reliable telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin as he has had only an intermittent service for months.
The number quoted is not that of the phone that had been rented recently by the person mentioned. The person named rented another line on which service was withdrawn for nonpayment, and a notice terminating his agreement issued on 6 July.
560.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware that a firm (details supplied) in Dublin 1 have been without a telex service for the past three weeks which has resulted in three persons being laid off; and if he will take steps to have the service restored immediately in order to maintain employment.
Service has been restored.
561.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 14.
Within a year.
562.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when the residents of Whitecliff Estate, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14, can expect to receive a telephone service; and when he will provide a telephone for the kiosk there.
It is expected that telephone service will be provided for the waiting applicants in Whitecliff Estate, Rathfarnham, within about six months.
Service was provided for the kiosk on 8 July 1982.
563.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
Service will be provided as soon as possible but it is unlikely that the necessary cabling will be completed for about a year.
564.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if, in view of the fact that engineering work to lay cables is progressing in Faughart Parish at present, he will state when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Louth as he applied in 1979; and the reason his neighbours have been provided with service.
It is expected that service will be provided for the person named within about a year.
It has not been possible in the time available to research the reference to other applications. If the Deputy will furnish details of the applications referred to including names and addresses further inquiry will be made.
565.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the number of applicants waiting for telephone service in the Bohernabreena area, Tallaght. County Dublin; and when a telephone service will be provided in this area.
There are 15 waiting applications bearing Bohernabreena addresses. It is expected that service will be provided for the applicants progressively within the next six to twelve months or so.
566.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if the new mobile exchange at Somerville Avenue, Dublin 12 has been damaged by vandals; and, if so, if this will inhibit the exchange in providing service.
The mobile exchange at Sommerville Avenue, Crumlin, Dublin 12, was damaged by vandals. Subject to remedial works being completed quickly, it is still expected that the exchange will be in service in the autumn but this will be some months later than had been planned.
567.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he is aware that a number of residents at Orwell Park, Templeogue, Dublin 12, are without telephone service; and when service will be restored to them.
Service will be restored as soon as possible but this may take a week or so because of the large number of faults on hands.
568.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Clare as he paid a £1,000 deposit in December 1981.
It is expected that service will be provided for the person named, who made advance payment on 26 February 1982, within about a month.
569.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be restored for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12.
Service will be restored as soon as possible but this may take a week or so because of the large number of faults on hands.
570.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the number of applicants waiting for telephone service in the Brittas area, County Dublin.
The answer is 111.
571.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when the building of the new telephone exchange at Brittas, County Dublin, will be completed; and when it will be operational.
About mid-1983 and mid-1984 respectively.
572.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
573.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
It has not been possible to trace an application on behalf of the person named. If the Deputy will furnish additional information, e.g., when and where the application was made, a further effort will be made to trace it.
574.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
575.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about a year.
576.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about a year.
577.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
578.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
It has not been possible in the time available to trace an application on behalf of the person named. If the Deputy will furnish additional information, e.g. when and where the application was made, further efforts will be made to trace it.
579.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
580.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
581.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone will be transferred for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
It has not been possible to trace an application on behalf of the person named. If the Deputy will furnish additional information, e.g. when and where the application was made, further efforts will be made to trace it.
582.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about two months.
583.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
584.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about a year.
585.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about six months.
586.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
It has not been possible to trace an application on behalf of the person named. If the Deputy can furnish additional information about the application e.g. when and where the application was made, further efforts will be made to trace it.
587.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork.
Within about a year.
588.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if his Department will now provide a telephone service for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim who paid the connection fee over 12 months ago.
Service will be provided within about a month.
589.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if his Department will now arrange for the installation of a telephone for a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim.
It is expected that service will be provided within about a year.