MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the grievance endured by the City of Dublin owing to the absence of any law of removal in the case of paupers and pauper lunatics such as exists in England and Wales; and whether, in view of the fact that large numbers of those classes are chargeable on the rates of the City of Dublin and have no connection with it, he will consider the advisability of assimilating the law of the two countries, and so enable the charge of such to rest on their respective districts within Ireland.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR) Londonderry, N.The suggestion in the question is that the English law of settlement should be applied to Ireland. The Chief Secretary is not aware that any representations have been made to the Local Government Board in favour of such a proposal, and he is unable to advise that it should be adopted.