§ MR. JOYCE (Limerick)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has 295 been called to the condition of the Ballinacurra district at Limerick in connection with the question of sewerage; when was the Provisional Order passed; have the district council applied to the Local Government Board to send down an arbitrator, and has the request been yet complied with; is he aware that disease has broken out in this district and that deaths have occurred, which are attributed to the want of proper sewerage; and will he see that the Local Government Board hasten this necessary work.
§ MR. BIRRELLA Provisional Order authorising the district council to acquire certain lands compulsorily for the purpose of carrying out a sewerage scheme for the district named has been made by the Local Government Board and was confirmed by Parliament on 1st August last. Copies of the Act were not available till the middle of October, when a copy was sent to the council with directions for the preparation of the maps and schedules required for arbitration purposes. The district council have asked the Board to send down an arbitrator, but this cannot be done until these maps and schedules are furnished. No cases of infectious disease at Ballinacurra have been recently reported to the Board.