§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, For what reason the Local Government Board have neglected to schedule the Union of Bailieboro, co. Cavan, and why they have not replied to the several applications made to them by the said guardians?
§ MR. J. LOWTHERSir, I beg to point out that the Local Government Board has not the power of adding Unions to the Schedule. That power is vested in the Lord Lieutenant. The duty of the Local Government Board is to forward applications from the Boards of Guardians to the Irish Government, accompanying them with their own views on the subject. It appears that the Board of Guardians of the Bailieboro Union made application, in the month of December, to have their Union added to the Schedule. The Local Government Board conducted an inquiry in the usual manner, and forwarded the application to the Irish Government, with the expression of their own opinion that the Union should not be added to the Schedule. The Local Government Board only did their duty respecting it. Subsequently to that decision, on the report of the Local Government Board, Bailieboro had been added to the list of Scheduled Unions by the Irish Government.