Fitzpatrick, Thomas J.Tuesday, 11 October 1966 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cavan Housing.
(Cavan) asked the Minister for Local Government if, in view of the acute housing shortage in Cavan town, he will approve of the plans for the Mitchel Street housing scheme which were submitted on the...
(Cavan): Might I appeal to the Minister to get rid of the red tape and approve of the plans for the building of these houses, in view of the fact that not one solitary house has been built by the loca...
(Cavan): Not a bit.
(Cavan): Could the Minister tell the House when the request for the revised layout was conveyed to Cavan Urban Council?
(Cavan): Can we take it that since the 5th of this month, the application for revision was requested?
(Cavan): It would appear to follow.
(Cavan): One more question, if I may? May I finally ask the Minister to do everything possible——
Committee on Finance. - Vote 27—Local Government (Resumed).
(Cavan): I have no intention of interrupting the Minister beyond making this one point. I did not accuse the Minister of lack of frankness on this occasion. I accused him of lack of frankness when in...
(Cavan): I have no intention of interrupting the Minister.
(Cavan): I just want to get him on the rails. I accused the Minister of being less than frank with the House when he introduced last year's Estimate and said that everything in the garden was rosy an...
Committee on Finance. - Vote 27-Local Government (Resumed).
(Cavan): We do not mind the Minister going on for a month, provided he answers all the charges made.
(Cavan): I referred the Minister to my speech, which he misquoted.
(Cavan): The opening words.
(Cavan): Read the opening.
(Cavan): I agree with that.
(Cavan): Read on.
(Cavan): What is wrong with that?
(Cavan): I defy the Minister to quote the opening paragraph of my speech.
(Cavan): I defy the Minister to quote the opening paragraph of my speech.
(Cavan): Quote and misquote as it suits you.
(Cavan): And a scarcity of money.
(Cavan): We are complaining that since 1957 the Minister fell down on housing.
(Cavan): The Minister for Health said in Cavan that the present Government are going through exactly what was gone through in 1956 and for the same reason.
(Cavan): This is the big difference: do not mind about all the promises you made.
(Cavan): You can hold it up at the pre-tender stage.
(Cavan): What about the question in regard to Cavan today?
(Cavan): The Minister overruled the local engineer.
(Cavan): I think the Minister said he would leave these things to the local people.
(Cavan): We took one case today at random and we found it was the one that was out of line.
(Cavan): Because I was interested.
(Cavan): There are such swallows in every County in Ireland.
(Cavan): Would the Minister say——
(Cavan): I was asking a question.
(Cavan): The Minister says he is giving helpful information that we have not already got. Is the Minister aware that it is necessary to obtain the approval of the Minister to sign a contract for tend...
(Cavan): So does the Minister.
(Cavan): If the Minister wants to be personal, Sir, he is earning his living——
(Cavan): I do not mind staying here until Christmas.
(Cavan): If the Minister gets personal, I will get personal.
(Cavan): The Minister would not know.
(Cavan): It was ignored then.
(Cavan): All they have to do is move into the houses and take up residence.
(Cavan): Substitute “to date”. (Interruptions.)
(Cavan): Why is the number of new houses approved this year down drastically, in view of that statement about additional money?
(Cavan): So long as the Minister keeps it in mind and answers it.
(Cavan): Better still.
(Cavan): Do the figures not prove that there are many thousands of people fewer in employment today than there were in 1956?
(Cavan): Let the Minister deny it.
(Cavan): Let the Minister deny my assertion.
(Cavan): No; they are hard to answer.
(Cavan): Houses fell and killed people since the Minister took office in charge of housing. He should be ashamed.
(Cavan): The Minister was in office for at least four years——
(Cavan): Would the Minister agree——
(Cavan):——that the number of houses commenced this year would be a more accurate barometer?
(Cavan): I do not think so.
(Cavan): I shall leave that explanation to the House and to the country.
(Cavan): What are the delays due to?
(Cavan): The right way of putting it is that you sent a quarter of a million people to England since then.
(Cavan): The houses are falling down around you.
(Cavan): There are 80,000 fewer people in employment now.
(Cavan): The Minister must be bankrupt of policy when he has to go back 30 years to justify the present state of housing in Dublin.
(Cavan): They gerrymandered the constituency.
(Cavan): The people awaiting houses are getting very impatient.
(Cavan): But the Minister did not do it yet.
(Cavan): But did not do it.
(Cavan): The people of Cork and Dublin answered that on 1st June.
(Cavan): How long will four and five people have to continue to live in one room?
(Cavan): The people living in the room are not bored.
(Cavan): The people are now flying out of Donegal.
(Cavan): How much was paid to Donegal——
(Cavan): How much has been paid to Donegal County Council this year?
(Cavan): Have the houses been started in Milford?
(Cavan): I understood the Minister to say that they will be completed before next June.
(Cavan): You might postpone it again.
(Cavan): Why is Cavan different?
(Cavan): Let the Minister be serious. The Minister has outlined a different procedure from that which he mentioned for Cavan at Question Time today. He said his officials had been down and had refuse...
(Cavan): No houses were built since 1952.
(Cavan): I may be wrong but I thought that the Minister said in relation to housing that it was not necessary to go to the Department until the tenders had been received and a price negotiated.
(Cavan): I may take it up with the Minister privately, but in my capacity as a member of the local authority, will the Minister tell me that he is stating there is no necessity for the local authority...
(Cavan): I will be glad to avail of the opportunity.
(Cavan): They can select a site, invite tenders and then come to the Minister?
(Cavan): And due regard being had to the type of house—whether there is a bathroom in each house?
(Cavan): There is no comparison between a house built now, containing a bathroom, and a house built 20 to 30 years ago with an outdoor toilet.
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