HC Deb 18 February 1884 vol 284 c1170
MR. KENNY

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he will state the legal difficulties in the way of the reconstitution of the Ennis Town Commissioners; if he his aware that the attention of the Irish Local Government Board has been called to the unsanitary state of the town and the consequences likely to follow from disease if immediate steps are not taken to remedy the evil; and, if, in view of this state of facts, he will, as President of the Irish Local Government Board, endeavour to accelerate the action of that body in arriving at a satisfactory readjustment of the difficulty?

MR. TREVELYAN

, in reply, said, he was not aware of any legal difficulties in the way of reconstituting the Town Commissioners, and the Local Government Board were about to apprise the ratepayers that they were prepared to receive an application on the subject. In the meantime, the Board of Guardians would become the sanitary authority of the town, to the unsanitary state of which the Local Government Board had directed attention.