asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he is aware that there were two thousand unsuccessful applicants for housing accommodation in Fairbrothers' Fields area, Dublin, and that in the districts of Marino and Croydon Park many hundreds of applicants have been disappointed; if his attention has been drawn to the occupation of one room by two families of sixteen persons in a Dublin tenement, and if in view of these appalling conditions he will expedite the building of houses, cottages or flats to be let at rents which the working classes can reasonably be expected to pay.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - HOUSING CONDITIONS IN DUBLIN.
The local authority and myself are both aware of the fact of house shortage in Dublin. Efforts for the improvement of the situation are being unremittingly made.
Mr. BYRNE
The Minister has not answered the second part of the question, where I ask if his attention has been drawn to the occupation of one room by two families of 16 persons in a Dublin tenement.
My attention has not been drawn to that fact. If the Deputy is aware of it, or has any information on the matter, the Commissioners in Dublin would properly be the persons to whose attention the fact should be drawn.
Mr. BYRNE
The Deputy has knowledge of it, and sent a communication to the Minister's Department, which was acknowledged.