§ MR. TIMOTHY DAVIESI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of persons over seventy years of age in Ireland; and if he can state the number of such persons in receipt of Poor Law relief on 1st January, 1908.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.The number of persons in Ireland aged seventy years and upwards was, at the date of the last census, 187,315. As regards the remainder of the Question I would refer to the reply given by my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a Question asked by the hon. Member for North Sligo on 15th October. In that reply the number of persons in Ireland over seventy years of age then in workhouses, or who had been recipients of outdoor relief since 1st January last, was estimated at 32,000.