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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 23 Nov 1938

Vol. 73 No. 6

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Boards of Health Building Schemes.

asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if, as a result of the increased cost of building to boards of health who are building houses in urban areas where no urban authority exists and where the cost of construction exceeds by a considerable amount that allowed to rank for grant, viz., £300, he is prepared to extend this amount to £350 to cover costs in order to put boards of health on the same basis as an urban authority doing similar work.

I cannot see my way to increase the limit for subsidy purposes in rural areas.

Is not the Minister aware that houses of this type erected by the boards of health cost more than £300 to build? Does the Minister think it fair to throw back on the ratepayers the difference between £300 and the actual cost of that type of house and is he aware that the type of tenant for those houses is not able to meet an economic rent?

If the tenants of these houses were able to meet an economic rent subsidies for housing would not be anything like what they are at present.

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