§ Mr. FIELDasked the Chief Secretary whether he has read a report of a mass meeting of Dublin workers held in Beresford Place last Sunday, and received a copy of a resolution asking for £5,000 to relieve urgent distress; and whether he will comply with that request and enable the distress committee to cope with the calls made upon them?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI have read the report referred to. The resolution asking for £3,500 for the unemployed in Dublin was evidently made on the assumption that a large balance of the money apportioned to Ireland under the Unemployed Workmen Act is still unallocated. This is not the case, as the whole grant of £5,000 for Ireland has been distributed, Dublin obtaining no less than 63 per cent. of the whole.