§ MR. M'GOVERN (Cavan, W)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will explain why the application of Thomas Smith for a labourer's cottage on the farm of Thomas Simons, in the townland of Corobay, Ashfield Rural District, Cootehill Union, was refused.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The application was refused by the inspector 1108 inasmuch as the applicant at the time of the inquiry was living in the Cootehill Urban District. Independently of this initial objection, however, it was given in evidence at the inquiry that there were several vacant houses available for labourers in the neighbourhood mentioned in the Question, and on this ground also the application, which was originally grounded on the alleged insufficiency of house accommodation in the district, would have been rejected.