§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the late sanitary authority of the Swineford Union, county Mayo, refused to provide a proper supply of water for about ten families in the town-land of Urlaur, in said union, although requested to do so by memorial signed 885 by the most influential persons in the dispensary district of Kilkelly; whether he is aware that the sanitary officer's report stated that—
Water was inconvenient, some half dozen families requiring to go about eleven hundred yards for water;whether the memorialists wished to have the dispensary district the "contributory" place, and whether a few ratepayers from Urlaur opposed it on the ground that the expense should not be placed solely upon the electoral division of Urlaur; whether the Local Government Board, when requested to investigate the matter—Declined to interfere with the discretion of the sanitary board;and, whether the Local Government Board are now prepared, upon ascertaining the veracity of these statements, to give a provisional order to the new sanitary board to provide a proper supply of water at said place?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Local Government Board inform me that a Memorial was received from certain persons in the townland named, praying that a pump might be constructed for the purpose of giving them a water supply, and that a counter Memorial was received representing that no necessity existed for such a proceeding. The Medical Officer of Health represented that the water available was pure, but inconvenient for some of the inhabitants. The Board of Guardians and Dispensary Committee both consider it unnecessary to incur expense in the matter; and the Local Government Board have not thought it necessary to interfere with the discretion of the Sanitary Authority.