§ Mr. ELLIS DAVIESasked how many labourers' cottages have been built in Ireland under the Labourers Acts; and what was the average cost thereof?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board inform me that up to the 31st March, 1910, 29,186 cottages had been provided under the Labourers Acts, and the average cost including garden allotment was about £167.
§ Mr. ELLIS DAVIESasked how many cottages with half an acre or more of land have been provided in Ireland under the Labourers Act; and what is the average weekly rental of such cottages with land?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board inform me that up to the 31st March, 1910, the latest date to which their returns are made up, the number of cottages provided with plots not half a statute acre or less was 14,411, the great majority of these plots contained half an acre. The number of cottages provided with plots exceeding half, but not exceeding three-quarters of an acre, was 1,077, and the number with plots exceeding three-quarters of an acre was 13,698. The Board are not in a position to state with certainty the average weekly rent of a cottage with half an acre or more land attached thereto, but the average weekly rent of all the cottages and plots provided under the Acts is about one shilling.