§ (BY ORDER.)
§ Order for Second Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read a second time."
§ MR. FLAVIN (Kerry, N.)asked the Attorney General for Ireland how this Bill affected the town of Tralee and the county Kerry.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON, Londonderry, N.)was understood to say that he did not know how it affected them.
§ MR. FLAVINasked if the Bill did not refer to an inquiry that had been made as to the relations between the Tralee Urban Council and the county of Kerry at large.
§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)said that one of the chief items in the Bill referred to the financial relations between the Tralee Urban Council and the County Council of Kerry, and yet the Attorney General, for Ireland, who was responsible for the Bill, did not know that it had anything, to do with that dispute.
§ MR. ATKINSONsaid that there were three Provisional Orders made by the Local Government Board under Section 77 of the Act of 1898, and he did not know exactly to what the hon. Member referred. These Provisional Orders related to the town of Dundalk, the city of Sligo, and the town of Tralee, and they adjusted the respective liabilities between the counties and the urban district councils.
§ MR. FLAVINasked how the county of Kerry and the Urban District Council, of Tralee were affected by the Bill, and if the latter was aware that this Provisional Order had been introduced.
§ MR. ATKINSONsaid that, of course, the Provisional Order affected both the 41 County Council of Kerry and the Urban District Council of Tralee. The Local Government Board sent down an inspector, who made an inquiry into the financial relations of the two councils, and the result was that this Provisional Order was made.
§ MR. DILLONpointed out that the right hon. Gentleman the Attorney General for Ireland did not seem to know that the Bill dealt with not three, but four Provisional Orders, as one relating to the city of Waterloo was also included.