§ MR. MELDON (for Mr. DOWNING)asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Why it is that, since he became President of the Local Government Board in Ireland, there is no reference made in any report of that Board to cases of removal of paupers from England and Scotland to Ireland, which was previously done in almost every report?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHI think if the hon. Member for Cork county had looked at the Report of the Irish Local Government Board, he would have found that the last reference to the removal of paupers from England and Scotland to Ireland was made in the Report for 1871, three years before I was in any way responsible for these Reports. I presume that the reason for discontinuing any reference to this subject was 540 that the Irish Local Government Board found that the repetition of their views with regard to it had little or no effect.