§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as President of the Local Government Board, why the Local Government Board inspector, Mr. Barnewall Crofton, refused to give a house and allotment on the untenanted lands of Dunkip, in the last scheme of the Croom District Council under the Labourers Act, to Patrick Maguire, Abbeyville electoral division, considering that this man has no claim to the house in which he and his mother live, with no other alternative to getting the house but emigration to America.
MR. BRYCEThe Local Government Board's inspector found that there was no necessity for the cottage applied for on behalf of Patrick Maguire. The house in which Maguire has been living for the past seven years was not medically condemned as unfit for human habitation, and no complaint as to its unfitness was made. No suggestion was made at the inquiry that the applicant would have to emigrate if he should not obtain the cottage applied for; on the contrary, the applicant gave evidence that there was plenty of work for him in the locality, and that his mother also obtained employment.
§ MR. LUNDONThe man has had to get the loan of a house from a charitable lady. He could get no other although he had work in the locality.