§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDY (Cavan, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will say whether the Local Government Board rejected the claim of William Walker for a labourer's cottage on the lands of James Shiels, J.P., Annalee, in No. 1 Cootehill Rural District Council; was the applicant living with Mr. Shiels when he lodged the representation; and will he state why this labourer was refused a cottage.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The application in question was rejected by the inspector because the applicant did not work in the rural district. The evidence showed that the applicant was living in the rural district, in a house belonging to Mr. Shiels, when the application on his behalf was lodged, but for two or three months previous to the inquiry he was living in the Cootehill urban district, and had actually been working therein for about seventeen months.