§ MR. DEASYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the attention of the Government has been called to the fact that several families have recently been sent back from New York to Queenstown by the United States Government in a state of great destitution, and have become a burden on the rates of the Cork Union; and, what steps the Government propose to take with regard to such cases?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANIt is true that several families have been sent back from New York to Queens-town as stated. When persons thus returned had been State-aided, arrangements were made by the Local Government Board that their expenses to their own Unions should be paid. But neither the Government nor the Local Government Board could take action with respect to the removal from Cork of returned emigrants, who had been sent to America by other means. The Board have obtained a list of the returned emigrants who have received relief in Cork Union, and are causing inquiry to be made as to the circumstances under which their emigration was carried out.