§ MR. O'SHEAasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether he will order an experienced official of the Local Government Board to thoroughly investigate the state of the small farmers and labourers within the Unions of Kilrush, Ennistymon, and Corofin, county Clare; and, if so, whether he will lay the report furnished by that official before the House?
§ MR. TREVELYANI have already received Reports from the Local Government Board relative to the state of Ennistymon and Corofin Unions, and one of their most experienced Inspectors has been in County Clare making further inquiries. No allegations of any unusual distress in the Kilrush Union have reached me; but the Inspector will be instructed to make inquiries there also. There will be no objection to producing the Reports relating to Ennistymon and Corofin.