§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the reason for the delay on the part of the Local Government Board to sanction the request of the Rural District Council of Tulla, County Clare, relative to the erection of twenty-two cottages with one-acre plots, seeing that all the preliminary inquiries have been carried through, and can he explain why no answer has been received to an application made to the Local Government Board to allow the additional half-acre plots to be given to the tenants at present in occupation, although the application was renewed on 5th February.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe scheme was inquired into by the Local Government Board so long ago as 1895. It was not then sanctioned for reasons which were explained in detail to the local authority. The Board has not received the recent application to which reference is made in the second part of the Question.