§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received a copy of a resolution adopted by the management committee of the Cork District Lunatic Asylum on the 21st ult., calling his attention to the fact that many insane patients of other countries and of other counties in Ireland have been committed and remain chargeable to local rates at an annual cost of about £1,240; and whether he will comply with the request of the committee and promote a Bill this session enabling it to deport such patients, with a view to reduce the present overcrowding in the asylum and to relieve the local rates of this charge.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The resolution has been received. I cannot undertake to introduce legislation of the character suggested.