§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether his attention has been called to the distress existing in Glencoe, in the Belmullet Union, and Derry, in the Ballina Union; and whether it is the intention of the Government to take any steps to provide employment for the people in these districts?
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. JOHN MORLEY, New-castle-upon-Tyne)There are a few families in the division of Glencoe for whom it may be necessary to afford relief by employment on a relief work, and such a work will be opened in this neighbourhood on May 1. As regards the Derry division, a most careful inspection was recently made of the district, and the Local Government Board inform me that the circumstances of the people there are not such as to render necessary, at present, the opening of relief works.