§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, South)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the inconvenience caused by the new county council areas being, in very many places, situated in two or more Parliamentary polling districts, and whether steps will be taken to have the county council areas and Parliamentary polling districts made co-terminous?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURIt would be quite impracticable to adopt Parliamentary polling districts as areas for local government purposes, owing to the fact that the boundaries of those districts intersect the district electoral divisions which form the unit of the county electoral divisions and of the rural districts.