asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he has sanctioned the appointment of a Chief Sanitary Officer to the Dun Laoghaire Coastal Borough and if he will state his age, and whether he is aware that he owns considerable tenement property in the area over which he will have to act as sanitary officer; and further, that he was the owner of forage stores; and whether the Minister can state when this gentleman ceased to be the owner of that property; and whether, in view of the above circumstances, he will withhold his sanction to the appointment.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - A Dun Laoghaire Appointment.
If the Deputy refers to the appointment as Veterinary Inspector of the Dun Laoghaire Borough of an officer who acted as such in the Dun Laoghaire Urban District before amalgamation I have nothing to add to the information already conveyed to the Deputy in correspondence. The appointment was not subject to the Minister's sanction and is not that of Chief Sanitary Officer.
I would like to inform the Minister——
To ask the Minister.
—to ask the Minister if there was an error in the correspondence from the Department to me on the appointment of a chief sanitary officer who hitherto had been a veterinary inspector and who has now been appointed to do the additional duties as chief sanitary officer. There is no question about that. I have it here in black and white from the Department. Is the Minister now saying that the appointment is not that of chief sanitary officer?
The appointment, as I have read out, is not subject to the Minister's sanction and is not that of chief sanitary officer.
If the appointment is not subject to the Minister's sanction it does not arise here at all.
I want to know from the Minister if the appointment to the chief sanitary officership is not subject to the Minister.
That is a different question.
I understand that the gentleman to whom the Deputy refers is veterinary inspector.
In view of the unsatisfactory answer and in view of the fact that I have brought to the notice of the Department that they have appointed to the position of chief sanitary officer a man who was one of the biggest slum landlords——
The Deputy is making a speech.
I will raise it on the Adjournment and make the speech then.