Daniel Desmond Sheehan,
Irish Labourers Housing Bill
(1911)
“ Anybody who, like myself, lived in the country twenty-five or thirty years ago, and who knew the wretched conditions of the labourers' dwellings at the time, must feel pleasure and gratification in knowing that at the present time we are in a fair way of having 50,000 labourers in happy homes, where they will be able to rear their families in comfort and cheerfulness. ”
Daniel Desmond Sheehan,
Irish Labourers Housing Bill
(1911)
“ The transformation effected in rural Ireland has been of the most marvellous kind. Anyone who remembers the state of things in the country ten years ago, and who now sees the rural districts dotted all over with happy homesteads — the squalid cabins in which people formerly lived having been removed – and who sees the bright and happy conditions which have replaced the griminess and misery of other days, must feel that we have made a great advance all along the line in this matter. ”
Daniel Desmond Sheehan,
Irish Labourers Housing Bill
(1911)
“ We take this measure for what it is worth, and to me it is worth a great deal in the increased comfort and happiness it will bring to our people. You are not only building cottages, but you are building up the natural character of the people. You are not only increasing the material comfort of the people, but you are lifting up the tone of their human life. ”
