§ MR. TULLYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the statement of the local police, denying that Thomas Colreavy, of Drumhass, in Mohill Union, died from the effects of hunger is seriously contested by the clergymen and the bulk of the people in the district; whether he is aware that this mar was refused seed potatoes at the Mohill Union Workhouse, and had afterwards to seek from his neighbours some seed 112 potatoes; whether the attention of the Local Government Board Inspector, Dr. O'Grady, was directed to his condition by the local clergyman some short time before his death; and whether, to allay public feeling in the matter and arrive at the truth, he will order a sworn inquiry to be held into all the circumstances of the case?
*MR. JOHN MORLEYI have directed the Local Government Board to hold a sworn inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of this man, and pending the result of the investigation it would not, I think, be advisable at the present moment to make any further statement in reference to the inquiries of the hon. Gentleman.