§ MR. T. P. O'CONNORasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, What are the grounds of the refusal of the Local Government Board to make the dispensary districts of the Arran Islands and Galway again separate; whether the amalgamation took place in September 1883 in consequence of a resolution passed at the instance of the Local Government Board by the Galway Board of Guardians in August 1883; whether, since that period, the Islanders and the Galway Board of Guardians have both asked that the amalgamation should cease; whether the Galway Board of Guardians has made this request on two or three occasions; whether the present arrangement throws an increased expenditure of £70 yearly on the Galway Dispensary, and thus affords a large relief to the owners of property at Arran, at the expense of the ratepayers of Galway; and, whether, as the original arrangement was made in accordance with a resolution of the Galway Board, and at the wish of the Islanders, the change will be made which is demanded by the same parties?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI have received a letter from the Rev. Mr. O'Donoghue, parish priest of Arran, on the subject referred to in this Question, and am at present in communication with the Local Government Board about it.