asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the priority that was afforded to a person (details supplied) in County Laois to enable him to be supplied with a telephone in August, 1975, while his next-door neighbour (details supplied) is still without a telephone even though he had applied six months before him.

The application of the first person referred to was not attended to on a priority basis. The installation work for both applicants should have been carried out about the same time but owing to an oversight in the section concerned the earlier application was, I regret, overlooked. Service will now be provided within a week or two.