§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will cause inquiries to be made as to the reason for the rejection by the County Court Judge of the claim of William Sheehan to a labourer's cottage on the farm of Jeremiah Hegarty, Ballyvourney, county Cork; was the house in which the applicant resides condemned by the medical officer of health for the locality; and was the sole ground of opposition to this man's claim that he participated in an agitation for the acquisition by the Estates Commissioners of a large area of land owned by Mr. Hegarty for the purposes of distribution amongst the labourers and uneconomic holders in a congested district.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have not yet received a copy of the County Court Order in this case. It is the fact that the applicant's house was condemned as unfit for habitation. The petitioner, Mr. Jeremiah Hegarty, opposed the erection of the proposed cottage on several grounds, one of which was the unsuitability of the applicant.