§ SIR T. ESMONDEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that the local Sanitary Inspector has reported that, of the 34 fishermen who have applied for cottages to the Dingle Board of Guardians, only two are living in houses fit for human habitation; and whether, in view of the circumstance that not a single cottage has been built in the Dingle Union since the passing of the Labourers Act of 1883, the Government will take steps to have proper house accommodation provided for the fishermen and labourers of the district?
MR. J. MORLEYIt would appear from the Report of the Sanitary Inspector, who examined the houses of the fishermen, not that the houses of all the applicants except two are unfit for human habitation, but that only two of the houses are in this condition. The Inspector's Report is under the consideration of the Guardians, and the Local Government Board propose to await their further proceedings with regard to these cottages.