§ Mr. FIELDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether in view of the facts set out in the correspondence and the memorandum of the town clerk of Tipperary he will grant the request for an inquiry into the charges made by the Tipperary Urban Council as to the application of housing loans under the Land Improvement Acts in Tipperary; and whether in the public interest steps will be taken to ensure the observance of the 212W conditions laid down by the statutes requiring cottages erected under land improvement loans to be used for the purpose to which Parliament dedicated them at the public cost?
§ Mr. DUKEAt the request of the hon. Member for South Tipperary I made inquiry into this matter and I came to the conclusion that there is no ground for holding an inquiry. No statutory condition exists with regard to the use of cottages after they have been erected as is assumed in the question and I do not think cottages provided under loans charged on the estates of private borrowers and repayable by those borrowers can be said to have been erected at the public cost.