§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if he can state how much has been spent of the sum of £20,450 sanctioned for the erection of 288 labourers' dwellings in Cork, under the Labouring Classes' Lodgings and Dwellings Acts, and Housing of the 777 Working Classas Act, 1885; how many of these dwellings are completed and inhabited; and when will the work be finished?
§ MR. MADDENThe total amount sanctioned for labourers' dwellings in the City of Cork is £20,291 9s. 5d., in addition to a sum of £1,000 sanctioned previously. The number of houses originally proposed to be erected was 298. Building sites have, it appears, been acquired, but as it is proposed by the Sanitary Authority to reduce the number of houses to 254, they have been obliged to submit an amended scheme to the Board of Works. Upon this scheme being approved, the Sanitary Authority intends to proceed at once with the erection of the houses, which can be completed within a few months from the date of approval.