§ MR. JAMES DALY (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that Peter M'Enaney, at present in Carrickmacross Workhouse, made a solemn declaration before a magistrate that he purchased a burial place in Pathead Cemetery, Scotland, that some of his family are buried there, and that he has repeatedly made application to the Board of Guardians of Carrickmacross Union to be sent back to Scotland so as to be buried with his family; and whether be will give power to the Board 143 of Guardians, Carrickmacross, to send M'Enancy to Scotland, where he spent 50 years, and where his wife and children at present reside?
§ MR. DALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that Patrick Brady, at present an inmate of Carrickmacross Workhouse, has made a solemn declaration before a magistrate that he spent 30 years in Scotland, and made Glasgow his home; and that when he entered the poorhouse in Glasgow the authorities there told him that he would have to leave or to submit to be sent back to Ireland?
§ MR. DALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he will confer with the President of the Local Government Board and the Lord Advocate for Scotland in order to bring in the Bill promised to prevent the return of paupers from England and Scotland to Ireland?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURWith reference to these Questions, the facts are as stated regarding the cases of Peter M'Enaney and Patrick Brady, but in neither case can the Local Government Board, under the existing law, interfere for the purpose of sending the men back to Scotland. I am still in communication with the authorities in England and Scotland on the general question of the deportation of paupers. On Tuesday last I explained to the hon. Member that any Bill dealing effectively with the matter would have to be an English and a Scotch rather than an Irish Bill.