§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the auditor of the accounts of the Kerry County Council maintained that printing was a public work; and whether, in view of the fact that this question of printing affects the whole of Ireland, the Local Government Board have been advised that printing is, or is not, a public work.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I am informed that the auditor treated the printing contract as a public work within the application of Section 18 of the Local Government Act, 1902, and I understand that the King's Bench Division recently decided in favour of that view.