§ MR. MORROGHI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if he has received copies of a Resolution adopted at a public meeting in Timoleague, County Cork, on Sunday, 1st instant, and signed by Rev. Father Mulcahy, P.P., Rev. E. Donovan, rector, by local Justices, and the local dispensary authorities, calling attention to the great distress prevailing amongst labourers and small farmers in the townlands of Abbeymahon, Cregane, and Timoleague, and 310 pointing out several useful and reproductive works on which employment could be given, so as to relieve those poor people from destitution; and, what steps do the Government propose to take as regards this district?
§ MR. MADDENThe Resolution referred to has been received, and the matter referred to is undergoing consideration.
§ MR. DALTON (Donegal, W.)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether the Government propose to start any relief works in the parish of Lower Templemore, County Donegal, as it is admittedly one of the most congested and distressed districts in that county; whether information has reached the Government that people on several occasions assembled at the Police Barracks in the east of the parish clamouring for work to tide them over the distress so acutely felt; and if he can explain why the engineer who was sent in December last to open up relief works in the district was recalled in a few days?
§ MR. MADDENThe matter is receiving the careful consideration of the Government.
MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)Having regard to the fact that large sums have been contributed by this House for the relief of distress in Ireland, that large sums have also been voluntarily subscribed, and that hundreds of families in Donegal are in a state of absolute destitution, may I ask when the relief will be begun?
§ MR. MADDENThe relief has begun, and works are actively in progress.