Individual telephone questions
Ahern asks whether the Minister supports answering individual telephone applications separately; the Minister says Deputies are entitled to ask, while the Chair rules the policy discussion outside the question.
My supplementary may be slightly outside the ambit of the question but it is the Minister's view that it is a good idea to answer individually on a series of questions? We had this practice in the last Dáil when we had pages of questions to the Minister concerning personal telephones.
Comment on this
I do not object to the practice. It is the right of a Deputy to put down a question concerning any subject on which he has a query. If a Deputy wishes to question me about individual applications for telephones or in relation to the provision of telephone kiosks, it is his right to do so.
