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Dáil Éireann - Volume 220 - 09 February, 1966 Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Ballymun Housing Scheme. Mr. Clinton Mr. Clinton 24. Mr. Clinton asked the Minister for Local Government when he expects to be in a position to hand over completed houses for the Ballymun scheme to Dublin Corporation for allocation to tenants. Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: Some 80 houses are at present under construction. The handover of houses for occupation is dependent on site-organisation which, as I informed the corporation in December last, was severely set back by weather conditions. It should be possible in the next few weeks, in consultation with the corporation, to agree a handing-over programme with the contractors. Mr. Clinton Mr. Clinton Mr. Clinton: Is this contract not falling well behind the Minister's anticipation of completion? Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney 1127 Mr. Blaney: No; I am glad to say it is not. The handing over is behind time due to the factors I have already [1127] indicated to the corporation, but the overall period for the total completion is still not being extended, nor is there any effort to extend it. Mr. S. Dunne Mr. S. Dunne Mr. S. Dunne: Could the Minister give any estimate of the total number which will be handed over in Ballymun this year? Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: I expect somewhere in the region of 600 during the year. Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan: Is it not the real reason that these have not been handed over that the Minister has refused until the Dublin Corporation fleeces the wouldbe tenants and charges them rents far in excess of those now being paid in order to pay for the scheme? It is not the weather that is to blame. There has been nothing unusual about the weather this year compared with other years and the Minister knows that. Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: The Deputy is codding himself. If I wanted to do him a bad turn, I would ask him to find his way in and out of the place. He is quite open to go and see the situation for himself. Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan: I am entirely familiar with it. I have been up to my “oxters” in mud there. Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: The Deputy has been up to his “oxters” in mud and yet he wants to hand over the houses. Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan: They could have been in the houses three months ago but the Minister did not want to hand them over. Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: That is not true, and the Deputy knows it. Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan Mr. Ryan: It is true. Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney Mr. Blaney: It is not true. Dáil Éireann 220 Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. Ballymun Housing Scheme. Questions 19660209
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