§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that, at last Friday's meeting of the Vice-Guardians of the Cork Union, Major Kirkwood said, on the question of outdoor relief, that—
The relieving officers should tell the children not to send their parents to the house or put them on relief, for if they did, the children would have to pay the money back,And that, at the same meeting, an old woman named Fitz Patrick, of Ballynoe, living with her daughter and son-in-law, was deprived of her usual grant of two shillings a week, though it was stated that the son-in-law was a "herd," earning only 10s. a week; and whether, in view of the many complaints made in the Union, the Local Government Board will make a further representation to the Vice Guardians on the subject of outdoor relief?
§ MR. MADDENIt is the case that the Vice-Guardian mentioned called the attention of the Relieving Officers to the provisions of the Poor Law Acts which render children liable to maintain their 133 parents. It is also the case that the Vice-Guardians stopped the grant referred to, as they were satisfied on inquiry that the recipient's daughter and son-in-law should support her and were in a position to do so. The Local Government Board see no reason to interfere with the Vice-Guardians' discretion in the matter.