§ Mr. SHEEHANasked whether the Local Government Board have had brought under their notice the grievance of John Mahony, Tweedmount, Blarney, tenant of a labourer's cottage in Cork rural district, who alleges that his plot is one rood and six perches short of the statutory allotment, and that this quantity of land was fenced in with the plot of a neighbouring labourer, and has been enjoyed by him for seven years, whilst Mahony is compelled to pay rent for it; have the circumstances been investigated and reported on by special committees of the district council, and did two engineers report as to the facts above stated; and, if there be any land wrongfully taken from this man, will the Local Government Board see that it is restored to him?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board have been unable to trace any re-1034W ference to this matter in any documents in their office. The matter in question is one entirely for the rural district council, who, moreover, are not bound to give the maximum garden allotment to each cottage provided by them under the Labourers Acts.