§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, what progress, if any, has been made with the new post office in Clones, for the erection of which sites were invited over three years ago; have sites been offered; and if so, why has none been selected; are the Clones public still obliged to transact their postal business in the corner of a small general shop, under the same conditions as ten years ago, where privacy 490 is impossible, and where customers may overhear and observe all that takes place; and when may a remedy be looked for for this state of things.
§ MR. HANBURYThe delay which has taken place in this case is regretted, but it has been unavoidable. A site which has recently been offered is now under consideration to see whether a new post office can be provided upon it at a total cost for site and building which the Department would be warranted in incurring. In the meantime the office is necessarily continued in the present premises, one half of which is used as a shop; but, as already stated, no specific complaint can be traced of the particular inconveniences mentioned.