§ MR. M'CARTHY DOWNINGsaid, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is the intention of the Government, in accordance with the repeated recommendations of the Poor Law Commissioners for Ireland, to introduce, during the present Session, a measure to repeal or amend the Laws by which persons born in that country, and others receiving relief in English and Scotch workhouses, are liable to be transported to Ireland?
§ MR. CHICHESTER FORTESCUE, in reply, said, he felt very strongly in- 797 terested in the subject of the hon. Member's Question, both as Chief Secretary for Ireland and as an Irish Poor Law Commissioner, and he desired strongly to see the law relating to it improved. With that view he was at present in communication with the President of the Poor Law Board of England and with the Lord Advocate of Scotland. More than that he was unable to say at that moment.