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‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Local Authority Houses. State grants for private house building
Summary
Faulkner argued that removing grants for many private builders would push people onto local authority housing lists, but Tully disputed the effect and declined to answer further.
Would the Minister agree that his decision of 1st January last to remove the right to a State grant form 50 per cent of those who would normally build their own houses has thrown a considerable number of people onto the local authority list and that the extra houses built by the local authority would not compensate for this difference?
Comment on this
Deputy Callanan said that the grant would not buy the nails for the houses. If the grant would not buy the nails, I do not know how Deputy Faulkner can say that it is stopping people from building their own houses.