§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether a labourer is disqualified from acting as district councillor by reason of his having obtained a plot of land under the Irish Labourers Acts, the said plot having been entirely purchased by money advanced by the Government, and the tenant's rent now going to relief of local rates.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.The Irish Local Government Board have acted on the assumption that the labourer is disqualified, but proceed- 919 ings have been or are about to be instituted to obtain a judicial decision on the point. It would hardly be proper for me under these circumstances to express an opinion on the abstract question put.