MR. NOLANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that since his promise to inquire into the conditions arising out of the Local Government Board regulation abolishing Collon, county Louth, as a medical relief centre two accidents have taken place in the village; whether he is aware that, owing to the distance set up by the regulation, hours elapsed in each case before medical aid could be brought, and that one of the sufferers died before it arrived; whether he is aware that the carman who went for the doctor in the latter case is yet unpaid, through the refusal of the Local Government Board to authorise payment; and whether he will now take steps to have the doctor restored to Collon.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I informed the hon. Member on April 17th† that a local inquiry had already been held, and that no further inquiry was necessary; and on June 20th‡ I dealt fully with the remaining points of the Question. It is not intended to restore the dispensary medical officer to Collon.