asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs the number of telephone applications outstanding in the Corbawn housing development, Shankill, County Dublin; when service will be provided; and the reason for the delay.

(Dublin South-Central): The number outstanding is 106. Service will be provided when a cabling scheme is completed about the end of this year. The scheme and numbers of others were seriously delayed by industrial action last year and by flood and other damage to cables in recent months.

Could the Minister be more specific in relation to the time involved? Eight months of the year are left and can the Minister say whether it will be done before the summer rather than before the end of the year?

(Dublin South-Central): It will be near the end of the year.

It will be closer to the end of the year than we are today.

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