§ Mr. BYRNEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he has received a copy of a resolution passed at the meeting of the child welfare committee of the Women's National Health Association, held in Dublin on Thursday, 10th May, 1917, to the effect that Section 7 of the Poor Law (Ireland) Act, 1862, should be amended so as to enable necessitous children requiring medical or surgical treatment to be sent by the guardians to any hospital or infirmary without insisting on such children being previously inmates of a workhouse, and that further legislation is required for the purpose of enabling the guardians to provide out of the rates institutional care for crippled and other defective children; and if, having regard to the difficulty of obtaining medical treatment for necessitous children in Ireland, he will take the necessary steps to give effect to the terms of this resolution?
§ Mr. DUKEThe resolution referred to has been received. In the event of a revision of the Poor Law the proposal in question will not be overlooked.