§ MR. SLOANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that every three months the Belfast Board of Guardians are compelled by the Local Government Board regulation to post throughout the union district the names and addresses of each person receiving outdoor relief, including blind persons, for whom a capitation is granted; and whether, in view of the fact that the Belfast guardians have petitioned the Local Government Board to suspend such regulation, he will cause it to be withdrawn, so that the honest poor may not suffer under this stigma.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe duty in question is imposed upon boards of guardians by Statute, and the Local Government Board have no dispensing power in the matter. The provision has this advantage: it enables the recipients of outdoor relief to ascertain the exact amounts which have been granted to them, and in this respect it has been found most useful and necessary.
§ MR. BIRRELLI will inquire as to that.