asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
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Service will be provided for the person named as soon as possible after the necessary advance payment has been made.
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asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8 as she has been waiting for a telephone for four years, is an old age pensioner and lives alone.
I understand fully the frustration felt at the delay in providing telephones. Regrettably, however, it will not be possible to meet this application until necessary additional engineering work is carried out.
The objective of the Department's current telephone development programme is to provide a fully satisfactory telephone service nationally in terms of both quality and availability by the end of 1984 and it is expected that service will be provided for the person named during the first half of next year.