asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will take steps to have a telephone kiosk provided in the Heywood Road and Fatima area, Clonmel, County Tipperary.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Clonmel Telephone Kiosk.
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I am advised that a kiosk in this area would not pay its way and I cannot, therefore, accede to the Deputy's request.
Would the Minister be good enough to indicate the nature of the inquiries he made to ascertain the reasonableness of setting up a kiosk in this area?
My Department is aware of the number of kiosks already in Clonmel—there are five and there is a sixth being erected at the moment. It will be erected, I understand, at Gladstone Street. There is a possibility of a seventh but I doubt if the place the Deputy is interested in would be selected because there is a kiosk within a few hundred yards of that particular location and the income from it is comparatively low.
Has the Minister taken into account that this is quite a big built-up area of working class houses ? There is a new scheme of houses to be erected there soon—some 40 extra.
There are 100 houses in the area and 40 to be built but there is a telephone kiosk within 400 yards of the area and the income from it is not such as would make one very enthusiastic about putting up another one.
Would the Minister like to walk half a mile—400 yards there and 400 yards back is 800 yards ?
You must admit that with five kiosks there already, a sixth being erected and the possibility of a seventh, the town is being well catered for.
I hope the seventh will not be as far away.