§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether complaints have been received by the Local Government Board relative to the condition of a cottage in the Mill Street rural district occupied by a labourer named Daniel O'Connor; whether he is aware that this cottage was condemned originally for defective construction by the engineer of the Board, and that the contractor for the erection of this cottage failed properly to perform his contract; and, seeing that the cottage is not at present in anything like habitable repair, will steps be taken to have the numerous existing defects remedied forthwith.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Local Government Board have received complaints as to the condition of the cottage referred to in the Question. In May 1905 one of the Board's inspectors, who was inspecting the cottages then being built, reported that this cottage required to be re-dashed and re-painted. The Board have urged the rural district council to carry out the necessary repairs.