asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether it is the intention of his Department to introduce legislation to provide for the purchase by tenants of cottages held under the Labourers' Acts.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - PURCHASE OF LABOURERS' COTTAGES.
Owing to the great accumulation of arrears of rents on these cottages which prevailed in many parts of the country, a measure of this nature could not, up to the present, be considered. A great improvement in the collection has now taken place in consequence of the abolition of the rural district councils, and the matter of legislation as proposed will be looked into. It is not to be understood that any undertaking is being given.