§ Mr. DEVLINI desire to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland a question of which I have given him private notice, whether his attention has been directed to a public statement made by the Lord Mayor of Belfast that 30,000 unemployed men in Belfast would gladly go to work in the Welsh mines with or without police or military protection; and whether, owing to the fact that by direction of the Lord Mayor of Belfast a sum of £1,000, to which Belfast was entitled for the aid of the unemployed, was withheld from that city on the ground that there was no unemployment in Belfast, he will now exercise his good offices to get that sum immediately allocated for portion of the 30,000 unemployed?
§ Mr. BIRRELLMy attention has not been called until this moment to the observations referred to by the hon. Member, but I do not think they would form a very sound basis for a successful issue for the application for the £1,000 which it is desired to obtain.