§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland can he say whether it is owing to the action of the Local Government Board, or to what other agency, the present scheme of labourers' cottages being built in the Kilmallock rural district has been so long without coming to completion; how many cottages and plots for labourers have been approved of in 1429 the Cahirconney electoral division; under what method of procedure are the tenancies on the O'Grady property being transferred from the landlord to the tenants, and what progress has been made with the sales; and will he see that the labourers' plots are contracted for forthwith, so as to afford immediate employment, and give the labourers an opportunity of tilling the plots before it runs too late in the spring.
MR. BRYCEThe Local Government Board have pressed forward the scheme referred to as much as possible, but there has been delay on the part of the rural district council in carrying out its details. The erection of ten new cottages, and the acquisition of one existing cottage in Cahirconney electoral division have been authorised. The Local Government Board have no information as to the O'Grady property. With regard to the final inquiry, I am advised that, pending the legal acquisition of the plots, it is open to the rural district council to enter upon the lands which it is proposed to acquire, provided that they obtain permission from the owners and occupiers.