§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he has seen a recent letter from Mr. O'Sullivan, of the Local Government Board, purporting to answer an inquiry of the Mullingar Rural District Council as to whether labourers were eligible for temporary lettings under Section 8 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, but in reality evading that question and misleading the council by answering a question not addressed to him; and, seeing that similar letters have been addressed 864 to other councils, obscuring the beneficial working of the Act, will he take steps to have the policy professed by the Government in this matter carried out by the officials.
§ MR. BIRRELLI have seen the correspondence referred to. The hon. Member has been entirely misinformed as to the purport of the inquiries addressed to the Local Government Board. I will send him a copy of the correspondence.