asked the Minister for Local Government if he will recommend to the local authority in Tipperary, South Riding, that a percentage of houses built each year should be allocated to newly-weds on the same basis as is operating in Dublin at the present time.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Houses for Newly-Weds.
The Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948, permits of the reservation of houses for newly-weds, as such, only in the case of the larger urban housing authorities, including Clonmel Corporation. The Labourers Acts, being the housing code under which the South Tipperary County Council operate, require certain preferences to be given in the letting of cottages which do not enable the council to reserve for newly-weds, as such, a fixed percentage of the cottages built each year. Subject to these preferences, it is, however, open to the county council to let cottages to newlywed applicants who come within the extended definition of "agricultural labourer".