§ MR. CAREW (Kildare, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what is the cause of the delay in the erection of the labourers' cottages in the County Kildare portion of the Edenderry Union, the schemes for which have been approved and sanctioned more than two years since by the Privy Council?
§ *MR. JACKSONThe erection of 32 cottages in the Edenderry Union has been authorised. Of these two have been erected, and a tender has been accepted for the building of one more. The Guardians have repeatedly advertised for tenders for building the remainder of the cottages, but considered those received to be too high. New plans for the further contract will, in all probability, be considered on the 14th instant.