§ MR. O'SHEETo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in view of the promised Labourers Bill for Ireland, he will have printed as a Parliamentary Paper the Reports on the working and administration of the existing Labourers Acts furnished in 1903 or early in 1904 by the inspectors of the Local Government Board; and whether he will include in such Paper two or more examples of Reports of inspectors of the Local Government Board as to local inquiries in relation to typical schemes under the Acts, and two or more examples of Reports of the proceedings and decisions of the Privy Council, in reference to petitions from the decisions of the Local Government Board under the Acts.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) I have not seen the Reports referred to in the first part of the Question. I am informed that they were intended for the private and confidential information of the Local Government Board and of its President, the Chief Secretary of the day; and I find that it was so stated by the right hon. Member for Dover in reply to a Question in this House on the 15th June, 1904† If the hon. Member thinks that examples of the Reports referred to in the latter part of the Question will serve his purpose, I shall have no objection to furnish them if he moves for them in the ordinary way.
†See (4) Debates, cxxxvi., 154.