§ MR. REDDY (Kings Co., Birr)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that on 4th November, 1899, the Birr (No. 1) District Council made a scheme under the Labourers' (Ireland) Acts, in which they included a cottage for Patrick Cassidy in the townland of Kilnagally glebe; that, in consequence of some alteration of site, it was subsequently resolved to omit this cottage from the Provisional Order confirming the scheme on condition that it would be included in a subsequent scheme since undertaken; whether he is aware that the Local Government Board for Ireland decline to include the cottage in the new scheme, although the necessary legal formulas have been gone through, on the ground that it was not specifically included in the last scheme; and whether he will direct the Local Government Board to include the cottage on Kilnagally glebe for Patrick Cassidy, without putting the council to the expense of taking out a Provisional Order in respect of one cottage.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe application was omitted from the Provisional Order in the first instance because the District Council failed to obtain the necessary consent of the parties interested to an alternative site. The consent was obtained subsequently to the issue of the Order, but the Council failed to include the case in the second scheme, and, notwithstanding the omission, requested the Board to include it in the Order confirming this scheme. The Board was advised, however, that in the absence of a specific representation in respect of the alternative site, and as the case was not included in the second scheme, it had no legal power to comply with the wishes of the council.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI have just stated the reasons.
§ MR. J. P. FARRELLIs it not the fact that the expense incurred for a scheme for one cottage is the same as that for 100 cottages?