§ Mr. P. J. O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board have received a communication from the Nenagh Board of Guardians complaining of certain surcharges made by their auditor against relieving officer Haugh, in his recent audit of the Union accounts; whether he is aware that a surcharge of £8 2s. was made in the case of a man named Hegarty, a labourer, who had been in receipt: of outdoor relief for nearly six years, being disabled from working by an accident, and a surcharge of £3 in the case of a widow Buckley, to whom relief was granted on a medical certificate; and whether, as the Guardians in granting the relief to Hegarty were acting on the precedent of a similar case, for which 75 they had received the sanction of the Local Government Board, 28th July, 1886, and the auditor admits that he was cognisant of that correspondence, the Local Government Board will consider the propriety of having these surcharges remitted?
§ MR. BRYCE (for Mr. J. Morley)Representations have been made by the Nenagh Guardians to the Local Government Board regarding the surcharges referred to in the question, and the Board are at present in communication with the auditor on the subject.