asked the Minister for Local Government to state the classified average income of the 18,000 families recorded by the Dublin Corporation in connection with the inquiry into the differential renting of corporation houses and flats.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Incomes of Dublin Families.
Any information on this matter which is available to the Dublin Corporation has been obtained as a result of a survey of the economic position of tenants of corporation houses instituted as a preliminary to the consideration of a differential rents system.
Information on the classification of income groups has not been submitted officially to me nor have any official proposals arising out of the survey been yet made to me by the corporation.
In view of these considerations, I am not in a position to furnish the information requested by the Deputy.
Surely in a matter of such importance as this it should be possible to secure these figures which arise in connection with Dublin housing, concerning which a committee was appointed by the former Minister for Local Government and the people of this country were anxious to see the figures as to the incomes of the tenants of the Dublin Corporation.
Mr. Murphy
They should go to the corporation for such information before they come to me.
Is the Minister not sufficiently interested to ask what information the corporation have in regard to the matter?
Mr. Murphy
I am quite interested in the matter. I realise that this is a proceeding instituted by the Dublin Corporation for a specific purpose and I want to see what happens when the information comes to the corporation. I think it would be an impertinent proceeding for me to intervene in the matter beforehand.