asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the engineering work required to be carried out in the Thurles area of County Tipperary to enable applications for telephone service to be dealt with; and when this work will be carried out and telephones provided to outstanding applicants.
Written Answers. - Telephone Service.
596.
The necessary engineering work, which includes cabling, cable distribution and extension of the Thurles automatic exchange, will be carried out over the next year or so. It is expected that the bulk of the waiting applications will be met within about a year and the remainder will be dealt with progressively over the following year or so.
597.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
Within about a year.
598.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
Within about a year.
599.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for a person (details supplied) in Dublin.
The person named already has telephone service. An application for an additional line will be dealt with within about a year.
600.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when the telephone of a person (details supplied) in Dublin which has been out of order for seven weeks will be repaired.
Service has been restored.
601.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be supplied to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin.
Within about a month.
602.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be supplied to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin.
Within about a month.
603.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the reason for the delay in installing a telephone for a person (details supplied) in County Meath who is a building contractor and who has been waiting over six months for service as it is essential that he has a telephone for his business.
It has not been possible to meet this application, which was received in January 1982, so far because of the large number of applications on hands and awaiting attention in the area.
604.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a transfer of telephone service will be provided for an applicant (details supplied) in County Dublin who is a member of the security forces.
Within about a year.
605.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs when a telephone service will be provided for an applicant (details supplied) in County Dublin who signed a contract and paid the fee some weeks ago.
Within about a month.