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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 1 Feb 1966

Vol. 220 No. 4

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Labourers' Cottages.

25.

asked the Minister for Local Government if a county manager may ignore a representation made under the Labourers Acts and decline to make similar provision for the same applicant under the provisions of the Housing Act, 1932.

The representations procedure under the Labourers Acts, to which I presume the Deputy is referring in the first part of his question, is regarded as inoperative and superseded by the provisions of the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932. As regards the final part of the question, a decision by a housing authority to provide a house for any particular applicant is an executive function of the authority, subject to compliance in making any letting, with the Housing (Management and Letting) Regulations, 1950 and 1953.

I think the Minister will agree that if the manager refuses under one heading, it seems desperately unfair that he should also refuse under the other on the ground that the applicant should have qualified under the first heading.

That point will be covered or is being covered in the legislation now before the House.

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