§ Mr. LYNCHasked whether, in regard to the construction of labourers' cottages in West Clare, the Chief Secretary can state whether the contractor has been paid for a cottage in the Querin division of the Kilrush rural district?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have no information as regards the matter referred to.
§ Mr. LYNCHasked the reason of the delay in completing certain labourers' cottages in the Kilrush rural district, West Clare, one of them, in Doonaghlery, in the Kilferagh electoral Division, having been left unslated for many months; and one, in Doonaha, in the Moyarta Division, having been left uninhabitable although the applicant is in urgent need of the cottage; why no mention was made of these cottages in the report of the engineer, Mr. Sheedy, read at the meeting of the Kilrush District Council on 15th instant; when these cottages were contracted for; what date was fixed as the limit for the completion of each contract; what was the amount of the loan; and what loss the council has sustained by non-completion of the contracts?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have not yet received the minutes of the proceedings of the Kilrush Rural District Council on the 15th instant, and have no information with regard to the matters in connection with the carrying out of the scheme for labourers' cottages in that district to which the hon. Member refers. The specification allows a period of six months for completing a cottage from the date on which the works are laid out, and a loan for carrying out the approved scheme was sanctioned at the rate of £170 per cottage and plot.