§ Mr. FFRENCHasked the Chief Secretary whether he was aware that the authorities of the parish council of the eastern district of Glasgow gave notice to the Wexford board of guardians of deportation in respect of one James Lynch, aged fifty-seven years, who spent twenty years in England and four months in Scotland; and whether, in view of the effect of the deportation of aged paupers to Ireland, after spending the best years of their lives in Great Britain, upon the interests of Irish ratepayers, he will undertake to have the law amended so as to make it equitable to the ratepayers on both sides of the Channel?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have had their attention drawn to 2442 this case, and they are informing the Wexford board of guardians that, as Lynch had not resided for five years continuously in Scotland without receiving relief, and had consequently not acquired a settlement in that country, he was legally removable. As regards the last paragraph of the question, I would refer the hon. Member to my reply to the question asked on 29th June last by the hon. Member for South Westmeath.
§ Mr. FFRENCHMay I ask why he was not sent to England, where he spent twenty-seven years?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThat arises from the inequality in the law.