§ MR. J. DALY (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, is he aware that, out of £40,000 voted by Parliament for the erection of labourers' cottages in Ireland, a sum of £132 15s. 1d. was allocated to the Guardians of Carrickmacross Union; and that, when the Guardians of Carrickmacross Union applied to the Board of Works for their share of the allotment, they were informed it would be paid after 50 years; and, if he will take steps to cause the Board of Works to hand to the Carrickmacross Board of Guardians £132 15s. 1d.
§ MR. HANBURYThe rule is that the capital sums payable to Boards of Guardians out of the Labourers' Acts Grant of £40,000 are applied in shortening the currency of the loans made by the Board of Works under the Labourers' (Ireland) Acts. This procedure has been followed in the case of the sum of £132 15s. 1d. allocated to the Guardians of Carrickmacross Union, with the result that the period over which the repayments will extend has been shortened by nine years. The Guardians were so informed on the 17th July, 1894.
§ MR. FFRENCH (Wexford, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether any portion of the £40,000 (probate duties grant) which was voted in aid of the liabilities under the Labourers' (Ireland) Act still remains; and, if so, how much; and, whether, as Boards of Guardians cannot claim payments from said grant after 31st March, 1896, he will recommend the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to authorise an extension of the time?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURA sum of £13,575 14s. 3d., portion of the amount mentioned in the first paragraph of the question still remains, and a recommendation to the effect stated in second paragraph has already been made by the Irish Government to the Treasury. The matter is still under the consideration of the Treasury.