§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Kilkeel Rural District Council recently acquired one acre one rood of land from the Earl of Roden in the town-land of Tollymore, county Down, for the erection of two labourers cottages; that on this plot, in addition to and adjoining one of the cottages, a hall is being erected with a tablet bearing the inscription, United Irish League, A.D. 1907; whether the erection of such a hall on land compulsorily acquired for the purposes of the Labourers Acts, and paid for out of the rates, has received the sanction of the Local Government Board; and, if not, what action he intends taking in the matter.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have ascertained that the hall in question is not being built upon land belonging to the rural district
†See (4) Debates, clxvi., 942 et seq.850 council. The land was originally taken by the council for the purpose of the Labourers Acts, but a portion of it, which was not required for that purpose, was reconveyed to the original occupier, and it is upon that plot that the hall is about to be built.