§ Mr. THOMAS F. SMYTHasked the Postmaster-General if the national trunk telephone system will be extended from Mullingar and Cavan, so that the towns of Carrick-on-Shannon, Carrigallen, Ballinamore, and Mohill, which are fair and market towns in county Leitrim, may be connected and incorporated with the system?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELAs the conditions on which extensions of the trunk telephone system in Ireland can be carried out are at present under the consideration of the Treasury, I am unable at the moment to give a definite reply to the hon. Member's question. When those conditions have been settled, I will ascertain whether they will admit of an extension of the telephone system to the places, named by the hon. Member.