asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he is aware that hardships are being inflicted upon persons who commenced the building of a house under the Housing Acts, 1932 to 1937, through a public utility society by the withholding of the higher grant for the reason that the public utility society may have ceased to exist before completion of the house and the payment of the grant; if he will take steps to ensure that all persons who applied through such societies for grants, and whose houses are certified as complete, or where the amount of work necessary to obtain half the grant is certified, will receive as expeditiously as possible at least the amount they would receive had those societies not gone out of existence.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Building Through Public Utility Societies.
Cases of the nature referred to in the first part of the question would be very rare. They would be considered as favourably as possible. There is no power in the existing law to make grants to private persons at rates appropriate to public utility societies in the circumstances stated by the Deputy.