§ 82. Mr. PARKINSONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is prepared to take any action to secure a reciprocal agreement between the Governments of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State with respect to unemployment insurance, in view of the fact that persons normally employed at the Belleek Pottery in Northern Ireland territory, but living in the Irish Free State, are now denied unemployment benefit, although they have been insured persons?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for the HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir William Joynson-Hicks)The matter is one which is entirely within the competence of the two Irish Governments, and I cannot intervene.