HC Deb 06 May 1915 vol 71 cc1232-3

Return ordered "in respect of labourers' cottages in Ireland, showing (1) county and rural district; (2) valuation of rural district; (3) number of labourers' cottages, (a) built, (b) in course of construction; (4) amount of loans, (a) sanctioned, (b) received; (5) amount required to be raised annually in repayment of loans sanctioned; (6) amount which would be raised by the maximum rate of 1s. in the £ allowed for the purposes of the Acts; (7) amount which it has been proposed to raise in each rural district under the provisions in Section 12 of the Act of 1906; (8) rate per £ required to raise amount specified in column 5; (9) present poundage rate levied on rural districts for the Labourers Acts purposes; (10) amount of Exchequer contribution for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1915; (11) amount of rent received from tenants of cottages and plots during the year; (12) unissued balance, if any, of county's share of the Exchequer contribution; (13) totals per county and province and for all Ireland; and (14) Return made up to the 31st day of March, 1915 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 277, of Session 1914)."—[Mr. Flavin.]

Return ordered "showing (a) the number of cottages and allotments provided under the Labourers' Acts by each district council in Ireland; (b) the rents reserved in letting under those Acts; (c) the number of cottages or allotments unoccupied within each district council area; (d) the number of cottages or allotments the rent whereof is in arrear and the total amount of such arrears within the said area; (e) the number of cottages applied for in each rural district under the last completed scheme under the Labourers' Acts, together with the number of applications for extra half-acres to cottages already built under the said scheme, the number of applications for cottages and extra half-acres sanctioned, the amount of the official, legal, engineering, clerical and other expenses incurred in connection with the preparation and confirmation of every such scheme and the particulars thereof; (f) the number of cases where advances have been made under Section 2 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, as amended by the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1906 and 1911, to agricultural labourers; and (g) Return made up to the 31st day of March, 1915, (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 276, of Session 1914)."—[Mr. Flavin.]