§ 54. Mr. PATRICK MEEHANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland why the Local Government Board for Ireland have not yet fixed the date of the local inquiry into the housing scheme, under the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, promoted by the Slievmargy Rural District Council, and embracing the erection of sixty badly needed houses in the district; and when the Local Government Board will hold the inquiry and allow the scheme to be proceeded with?
§ Mr. GULLANDThe Local Government Board cannot consider the question of holding an inquiry into this scheme until they have dealt with the schemes lodged with them for other districts where the need for labourers' cottages is greater.
§ Mr. P. MEEHANIs it not a fact that the majority of the labourers in the Slievmargy district are living in houses that have been condemned as unfit for human habitation and is this not sufficient to show the urgency of the inquiry?
§ Mr. GULLANDI will bring the facts stated by the hon. Gentleman before my right hon. Friend's attention.