asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state the definition of over-crowded conditions used by the Dublin Corporation for the purposes of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Housing of the Working Classes: Definition of Over-Crowding.
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The bye-laws adopted by the Dublin Corporation with respect to houses intended or used for occupation by the working classes incorporate the provisions of paragraph 4 of sub-section (1) of Section 28 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952.
The provisions referred to lay down that conditions shall, for the purposes of the section, be deemed to be over-crowded, at any time when the number of persons ordinarily sleeping in a house intended or used for occupation by the working classes and the number of rooms in the house either—(a) are such that any two of those persons, being persons twelve years old or more of opposite sexes and not being persons living together as husband and wife, must sleep in the same room; or (b) are such that the free air space, in any room used as a sleeping apartment, for any person is less than 400 cubic feet (the height of the room, if it exceeds eight feet, being taken to be eight feet, for the purpose of calculating free-air space).