§ MR. JAMES O'KELLYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if his attention has been drawn to a, resolution passed by the Boyle Town Commissioners to the effect that, having built houses and added plots of land for workers, under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, they are anxious to sell the same to the occupiers, who have paid their rents punctually for five years, on the lines proposed by the Government in the new Labourers' Bill, and asking the Government to so amend the Bill as to apply this provision to houses and plots provided under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts in small towns, and thus give the workers a freehold in their own land, and liberate funds for
† See (4) Debates, clvi., 416–7.628 further building operations in relief of this class in the Irish towns; and whether he proposes to take any action in connection with the matter.(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I beg to refer to my Answers to Questions on this subject put by the hon. Members for East Clare and West Kerry on Tuesday and Thursday last,‡ which have probably escaped the hon. Member's notice.