asked the Minister for Local Government if he is aware that Dublin County Council on 13th September 1965 passed the necessary resolution to raise loans for the erection of urgently required local authority houses at (a) Swords, 152 houses at a cost of £364,000, (b) Lucan, forty houses at a cost of £101,000, (c) Ballyboden, twenty-four houses at a cost of £67,000, and (d) Rathcoole, five houses at a cost of £11,000 making a total of 221 houses at a cost of £543,000; and that it was announced at a meeting of the County Council held on 11th September 1965 that the loans in respect of the Swords housing scheme have not been sanctioned; and when it is proposed to sanction these loans.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Dublin Housing Schemes.
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The Dublin County Council's request for my approval to the raising of the loans referred to in the question was received in my Department on 17th September, 1965, and is being dealt with in the normal way.
When will the Minister sanction this proposal? Is the Minister conscious of the desperate housing situation in Swords?
Of course, I am.
Will the Minister dawdle on this?
I am as conscious as Deputy S. Dunne of this, but that is not to say everybody else is as conscious of the plight in relation to houses in this area.