§ MR. W. O'BRIEN (Cork)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the conduct of the majority of the Dungannon, County Tyrone, Board of Guardians in persistently declining to put the Labourers' Act in force in the Annamoe division, notwithstanding a duly signed requisition from the ratepayers, and to the chairman's statement that he was opposed to this Act being introduced into the Union, and wanted to prevent it really being introduced there; and whether he will advise the Local Government Board to send down an Inspector at once to inquire into the Guardians' neglect of their legal duty?
MR. J. MORLEYThe matter has been brought under the notice of the Local Government Board, who have al-already asked the Guardians to furnish copy of the representation received from the ratepayers, together with a copy of the sanitary officer's certificate in relation thereto, and particulars as to the vacant houses which the Guardians alleged to be available for the accommodation of labourers. A complaint on the subject was received from a man named 1123 Francis McAleer (on whose behalf the representation was apparently made), and the Board have informed him that any application for an inquiry into the matter should, under Section 4 of the Act of 1891, be signed by the persons who signed the representation.