East Wall factory telephone connection
Andrews said an IDA factory at Unit 16, East Wall Road, could not begin employing 40 people without a telephone and had waited months for information. The Minister said such cases receive priority and offered to investigate if given the details.
Is any special provision made to ensure that industrialists investing in industrial units are provided with information as to when telephones will be made available? Is there any co-ordination between the IDA and his Department to ensure that industrialists are provided with telephones? I want to refer to the application of Unit 16, East Wall Road, an IDA factory, which is waiting for a telephone and cannot begin to employ 40 people who are on the unemployment queue waiting to get jobs. Jobs have been provided, the applications have been processed and the factory is waiting to get a telephone in order that those people can be taken off the dole queue. Is there any co-ordination between the IDA and the Minister's Department to ensure that when employment is given a telephone will be provided?
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I am not aware of the case to which Deputy Andrews refers, but the Department treat cases of that nature with priority. Whatever concern the Deputy may have for the case he is talking about, we share that concern not for that alone but for many others who may be in a similar position.
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Deputy Shatter was dealing with his constituency and my constituency and I am glad that he raised the question.
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Sometimes he does that and I am glad that he is doing a little of it today. This company at Unit 16, East Wall Road, have for six months been trying to get information through the IDA——
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——and the IDA through the Minister's Department as to when a telephone will be provided. Forty people are waiting to be taken off the dole queues and the Minister does not appear to be doing anything about it.
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The question on the Order Paper is a general question and Deputy Andrews's question is a specific question. I am calling Deputy Wallace and I tell him now that this is a question about Dublin. I am not preventing Deputy Wallace from putting a question about Dublin. Do you understand me?
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May I answer the query raised by Deputy Andrews? If he gives me details of the case in question I will give it my personal attention.