HL Deb 21 January 1847 vol 89 cc206-7
The MARQUESS of WESTMEATH

was anxious to remove a misconstruction which he was informed had been placed upon something that fell from him during the debate of Tuesday last. It was supposed that he had expressed a wish that the money which had been expended under the Labour-rate Act up to the present time should be repaid most punctually. Now, he gave no such opinion. He had it not in his contemplation to give such an opinion. It depended upon Parliament and the country whether they would require that the money laid out under an Act of Parliament passed in such circumstances as the Labour-rate Act, and under which the greater part of that money was admitted to have been thrown away and wasted, should be repaid. He thought that the late Government as well as the present were responsible for the effects of that legislation.

House adjourned.