EMIGRATION FROM MUNSTER.
DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.[West?]): I beg to
ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland whether his
attention has been called to the emigration
from the province of Munster in the year
1900, namely, 17,933, or 15.3 per 1,000
of the population of the whole province,
and, seeing that Munster is, agriculturally,
the richest province in Ireland,
whether he has any official information
showing why the emigration from it is as
large as that from the poorest province,
Connaught, where the majority of the
holdings are not large enough to support
a family, and where the fertile portions
are in the hands of the minority; and
whether he will this session introduce
legislation which may induce these
emigrants from Ireland to remain at home.
MR. WYNDHAM: There is no official
information showing the causes to which
this emigration is due, but I conceive it is
very largely dependent upon the demand
for labour in America. The reply to the
last paragraph is in the negative.
An HON. MEMBER: Is it not the fact
that the emigration is attributable to the
impossibility of living on the land in
Ireland?
