asked the Minister for Finance whether he will give special consideration to the question of the propriety of relieving the distress in Balbriggan where a number of men, some of them married and with families, have now been unemployed since 20th September, 1920, the date of the burnings by the Black and Tans, and where the exhaustion of the Relief Committee's Funds gives grounds for the gravest anxiety to the victims and their families?
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - DISTRESS IN BALBRIGGAN.
I have endeavoured to render all the assistance in my power to Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. The number of cases in which payment for awards has been made in Balbriggan is 71, and the total amount paid is £65,051. Practically every claim which it is possible to pay has been discharged. The exhaustion of the funds of the Relief Committee cannot be ascribed wholly to the extent of unemployment prevailing in the town.