asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether he is aware that the County Surveyor of Kilkenny County Council has reported to that Council that by December 1st next 607 road workers will be disemployed owing to the completion of a number of special works, and further, that a large number of men in the City of Kilkenny who usually find employment in the city on the roads, have been unemployed for some time, and to ask that when the vote for relief schemes is being allocated the above facts are taken into consideration.

I received only on the 1st instant a copy of the county surveyor's report to the County Council and the matter is being considered.