HC Deb 02 April 1900 vol 81 cc951-2
MR. FLAVIN

I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether he is aware that the Killarney Rural District Council have passed a resolution unanimously asking that a Bill should be introduced into Parliament to repeal Section 5 of the Act of 62 and 63 Vic, c. 31, validating the Orders of the Local Government, dated the 15th May, 1899, and the 17th July, 1899; and whether the Government will consider the advisability of acceding to the request of the members of the Killarney Rural District Council by introducing such a Bill.

MR. ATKINSON

The reply to the first paragraph is in the affirmative. I have already stated that it is under consideration whether it may not be advisable in the course of the present session' to give the Local Government Board, by legislation, power to vary areas of charge fixed by previous Orders.

MR. FLAVIN

Can the right hon. Gentleman say how soon legislation will be introduced?

MR. ATKINSON

I cannot add anything to what I have already stated.