§ MR. O'KELLY (Mayo, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the names of the local public bodies who have made representations to the Department of Agriculture in connection with the alleged inequality in the treatment of its staff; and what steps, if any, the Department proposes to take to satisfy these bodies of the justice or otherwise of their complaints.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The public bodies which have notified to the Department their adoption of a resolution 1107 passed, on the motion of the] Member for the Ossory Division, by King's County Council, are as follows:—
The Department do not propose to discuss questions as to the organisation of their office staff with local bodies which have no functions in the matter.
- Dublin County Council.
- Cavan County Council.
- Cork Borough County Council.
- Kerry County Council.
- New Ross Urban Council.
- Middleton Urban Council.
- Newry Urban Council.