asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will have a telephone kiosk erected in Kildalkey village, County Meath.

A kiosk in this village would not be warranted at present.

Is the Minister aware there is great need for a kiosk in this village? Representations to that effect have been made to me on a number of occasions by a number of people.

I understand there is a telephone available, admittedly during post office hours only, and replacement of that telephone by a kiosk would not be warranted. There are four telephones within a mile of the village and there is a coin box telephone in a public house.

That is a private telephone.

It may become remunmen erative to put a kiosk there later on, but not at the moment.

Would the Minister not consider transferring the telephone from the post office to a kiosk outside? That has been done in a number of cases with quite satisfactory results.

I will have a look at the matter again.

Or, maybe, the Minister will move the post office out of it altogether as he has already moved other post offices.

Where the people in the post office want the telephone moved to a kiosk outside would the Minister say whether he has any objection to that?

Sometimes that is done.

It could be done in this case.