§ MR. LUNDONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will explain why the county surveyor for County Limerick, although long since furnished with the instructions necessary to the repair and maintenance of the public roads by direct labour, is not doing the work, notwithstanding the condition of some of the roads in Last Limerick, and that the county surveyor for Tipperary County is working the roads from Tipperary town to Emly by direct labour; and seeing that the labouring population are in want of employment from the time at which the agricultural labour terminates, about the middle of April to the beginning of July, when hay cutting commences, will he take steps so that the labourers may be employed on the working of the roads as soon as possible.
(Answer.) Directions have been given to the county surveyors of the counties named to prepare direct labour schemes. The schemes, which must necessarily take some little time to prepare, have not yet been brought by the councils before the Local Government Board; but the latter Department feels sure that the councils will not allow any undue delay to occur in completing the schemes.—(Irish Office.)