asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if any representations were recently made to him by the Offaly Board of Health or any members of that body regarding the rates of wages paid to labourers employed by contractors now engaged in the erection of houses or hospitals in that county; whether he has given an undertaking that he will compel such contractors to pay their builders' labourers at a rate of not less than 11d. per hour; and, if so, whether he will take immediate steps to deal with all the contractors who are now paying their labourers at 8d., 9d. and 10d. per hour.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Labourers' Wages in Offaly Board of Health Contracts.
No representations have been made either by the Offaly Board of Health or any of its members to my Department regarding the rates of wages paid to labourers employed by contractors for the erection of hospitals or labourers' cottages in the county. As regards the second and third parts of the question, I cannot take direct action in the manner suggested.