§ MR. P. J. O'BRIEN (Tipperary, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that at the Local Government Inquiry held at Nenagh, North Tipperary, on the 15th April, with regard to the Guardians' proposed scheme for additional labourers' cottages in Nenagh Union, the application of four labourers, namely, J. Duff, J. Creamer, J. Starr, and J. McCarthy, from the districts of Portroe and Castletown, were refused on the ground that they were working at the slate quarries; and, seeing that the evidence of the district councillors for the divisions showed that these men were bonâ fide labourers, inasmuch as they worked for the neighbouring farmers during the harvest season, being obliged to work in the quarries during other slack times, and that they were at present living in hovels, whether he will take steps to have these men and their families provided with proper houses and the plots of land under the Act.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe Inspector's Report on this Inquiry, which extended over several days, has not yet been received.