§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will ascertain and state the amount of the ratepayers' money paid in Westmeath in each of the last six years to rate collectors for getting franchise requisition forms filled to office persons and otherwise for alleged registration of voters; the number of men, more than twelve months dead, who are now on the Parliamentary register of that county; the number of labourers and other qualified inhabitant occupiers in that county who are deprived of votes solely by not being registered; and, in a case in which the controlling members of the county council connive at neglect which disfranchises poor people, what action, if any, the Local Government Board take to prevent the payment of public money for registration work which is not done?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI have no means of obtaining the information asked for by the hon. Member. If any person considers that he has been wrongfully omitted from the register it is open to him to apply in the ordinary way to the revision court at the next annual revision.