Mulcahy, Richard JamesWednesday, 20 March 1929 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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For the provision of housing, Bills have been passed and moneys voted by the Oireachtas, including, under these Bills, £850,000, and £1,000,000 made available in 1922. These made provision for a tota...
I am speaking of facts in so far as building costs are concerned. I do not want to deal with the manner in which these facts actually came about. But actually, between May, 1926, and May, 1928, in Co...
That happened.
I would suggest to those who have some experience in the matter that there is a certain tendency to be flaitheamhail with money that comes from the tax-payer rather than the ratepayer.
If you want the local authorities to be fully satisfied, satisfied economically, and not unnecessarily to keep up the cost of building or place a heavy debt on the taxpayer or ratepayer, the local po...
I am taking a case which cost even £300. If you build 450 at £300 each, and if you are going to rent them at 5/- a week, the annual loss will be £5,118 15s. A penny in the £ in Tipperary produces £48...
For every £10 reduction in the cost of the houses, there can be a reduction of 6½d. on that rate of 8/10, and for every 6d. in rent that you get over 5/-, there can be a reduction in the rate of 1/-. ...
Yes.
Let me take the case of Ennis. In the course of three years, the Commissioner reduced the rates from 16/- to 10/-, or 6/- in three years. That tidying-up there, that 6/- in the rates had not, perha...
Why the first time?
Not necessarily.
There is a great difference.
Perhaps I might be allowed to intervene. I think it is quite right that the Deputy should take this particular case as a sample of a thing to be avoided, but if it is a question of examining the deta...
I think it quite reasonable that a particular case should be taken as an instance in order to point a general moral, but in a debate on housing here, to argue the merits pro and con, of a very definit...
—by the Department's inspector is, I think, quite wrong.
The Deputy ought not to leave out of mind that there were actually very considerable reductions in the cost of building materials since 1925.
I said building costs.
I think if the Deputy wants to be exactly accurate he would have to develop that a bit. The wages are of a particular type. They are fixed in respect of work done under grants given before a particul...
Not last year.
Under the provisions of this Bill the houses that are begun on or before the 1st April will be entitled to grants at the old rate. Houses begun after the 1st April are the houses that will come under...
I should have emphasised that.
Private Members' Business. - Legal Practitioners (Qualification) Bill, 1929—Fifth Stage (Resumed).
What does the Deputy call corrupt measures?
To what extent?
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