§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork Co., Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in the last improvement scheme, under the Labourers' (Ireland) Acts, formulated by the Macroom Rural District Council, an agricultural labourer, named Timothy Murphy, applied for a cottage and plot on the holding of Cornelius Dineen, in the electoral division of Magourney; and that the application was passed at the inquiry held by the Local Government Board Inspector, but subsequently rejected; will he state whether a special inspector was sent from Dublin to inquire into the grounds for rejection; and, seeing that the holding on which the cottage was to be erected contained 48 acres and had no labourers' dwelling built on it, will he explain on what grounds Timothy Murphy's application was refused.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe Inspector recommended the application subject to inspection of the site. The reply to the second paragraph is in the negative. Two inspections were made by the same Inspector who reported that water was not procurable within a reasonable dis- 598 tance, and that the site was marked on a holding too small as compared with others in the district. It also appears that the applicant works, not on the land of Mr. Dineen, but on that of another farmer who occupies 200 acres on which there are only two labourers' cottages.