§ MR. MCKILLOP (Armagh, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that John Moore and other labourers in the Armagh rural district applied for labourers' cottages to the Armagh Rural District Council; that their first application was declared informal by the Local Government Board inspector, who recommended them to make fresh applications, and that these fresh applications were rejected by this council; what steps the Local Government Board will take to have the recommendation of their inspector carried out; and whether this council, for a number of years past, has refused to put the Labourers Act into force or to use the money grant given to them for this purpose.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe applications of John Moore and some other labourers were rejected by the district council, and were therefore not included in the scheme which they submitted in April last. The council subsequently reconsidered their decision, at the suggestion of the Local Government Board inspector, and allowed Moore and thirteen other labourers to send in fresh representations. Nine of these fourteen applications, including Moore's, have now been approved. Ninety cottages have already been authorised in this rural district.