§ * MR. SHEEHAN (Cork Co., Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lientenant of Ireland whether he is aware that in the scheme of cottages formulated by the Macroom Rural District Council, in November, 1899, 20 representations were from the Macroom Electoral Division, which is also the township area, and that the Local Government Board Inspector, as a result of the inquiry which he hold in April last, did not recommend the erection of three of these: and, seeing that the said scheme was formulated in 1899, and that the cottages were recommended for erection in April, 1901, will he state whether the fact that the township of Macroom was constituted an urban district on the 1st of last October constitutes an impediment to the erection of these three cottages.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe electoral division of Macroom is now in the Macroom Urban District, and as Rural Districts are expressly exempted from the operation of the Labourers Acts, it has become necessary to exclude the three cottages in question from the Provisional Order.
§ * MR. SHEEHANThe cottages were sanctioned before Macroom was constituted an urban district.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThat may be, but the Provisional Order had not then been made.
§ * MR. SHEEHANThen the labourers are to be penalised for the delays of the Local Government Board!