asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state whether an application has been received in his Department from the Wexford County Council requesting that the houses at Riverchapel be handed over to them for the purpose of having them repaired and let to people who are badly in need of houses in that area; and, if so, whether this application will be approved.

No such application has been received in the Department, but if such an application is made I will have the matter sympathetically considered.