asked the Minister for Industry and Energy when it is proposed to provide electricity for the residents of Inisturk Island, County Mayo.
Written Answers. - Inisturk (Mayo) Electricity Supply.
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In accordance with Government decisions of 1979 and 1980, the ESB offered the householders on Inisturk island a supply of electricity with individual generators in each house. The islanders rejected this idea and said that they wanted a central supply.
I am informed that the average cost per house of supplying electricity to the islanders from a central generator would be approximately 13 times the cost of providing individual generators to each house. Because of these cost considerations the ESB, in a letter dated 19 February 1982, informed the islanders that supply could be made available from individual generators only. I understand that the ESB have received no further communication from the islanders since February 1982.