§ Mr. GUINEYasked the Chief Secretary whether, as the Charleville Rural District Council still persists in the legality of their appointing Maurice Hassett tenant to a labourer's cottage in the Ballyhea district, he will cause inquiry to be made by the Local Government Board into the rate of wages per week received by Hassett as clerk in a creamery?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe rural district council still maintain that Hassett is an agricultural labourer within the meaning of the Acts, and the Local Government Board are giving the case their careful attention. It would be impracticable for the Board, with their limited staff of inspectors, to make a special local investigation into each case in which complaint is made 1665W that the tenant appointed by a rural district council is not entitled to be a tenant under the Labourers Acts. It is open to any person interested to take proceedings against a council which lets a cottage to a person who is not a bonâ fide agricultural labourer.