§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Dublin, Co., S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the Local Government Board will take steps to compel the Guardians of the Rathdown Union to remedy the nuisance caused by the defective drainage of the Rathdown Workhouse, as the Guardians have hitherto failed to comply with the repeated requests of the ratepayers to have the matter efficiently attended to?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)I understand that there has been great delay, owing to the Guardians having been unable to obtain a certain engineer that they desired to employ. I think there was ground for the delay, but I have instructed the Local Government Board to see what can be done to remedy that.