§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he has received a resolution from the Bawnboy Board of Guardians dealing with the question of seed potatoes in that district; is he aware that, owing to the failure of the potato crop in this union and in the district around Blacklion, and bearing in mind the poverty of many small holders who have suffered, Government aid in supplying seed potatoes is essential if a further famine is to be guarded against next year; and will he say what action he proposes to take.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have received the resolution referred to in the Question. The Board have made special inquiries into the circumstances of the union referred to, and are satisfied that the union is not one in which the failure of the potato crop was such as to render it necessary for the Government to adopt special measures for the supply of seed potatoes.