§ Mr. PATRICK WHITEasked the Chief Secretary whether, having regard to the number of local authorities in Ireland that were compelled to seek advances at high rates of interest in the open market to complete schemes under the Labourers Acts, the necessity for more cottages, and the amount of Irish money invested or to be invested by the National Debt Commissioners, he will state what he proposes to do to preserve the continuity on identical lines of the policy of successive Governments in erecting State-aided cottages for agricultural labourers; and if he will also state what sum he proposes to allocate to the erection of suitable houses?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAs I have already stated, I am very anxious to obtain as much money as I can for this purpose.