MR. SULLIVANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland. When he proposes to lay upon the Table the Clauses affecting the licensing system in Ireland which he has stated he intends to move for insertion in the Intoxicating Liquors Bill recently introduced by Government; and, whether he will afford the people of Ireland as long a period to consider those Clauses as the people of England have had to consider the Intoxicating Liquors Bill affecting them?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHsaid, that on Monday next he would lay on the Table the clauses affecting the licensing system in Ireland intended for insertion in the Intoxicating Liquors Bill. He, however, feared it would not be in his power to afford the same time to the Irish people for considering them as the English people had had for considering the Bill of his right hon. Friend; but then one of the most important proposals in the Bill of his right hon. Friend was not intended to apply to Ireland—that which related to 1928 the hours of closing. The chief clauses of the Bill which he proposed to extend to Ireland were the 6th, with regard to early closing licences; the 11th and 12th, with regard to the record of convictions and penalties; the 13th and 14th, with respect to the regulations as to the right of entry into premises: the 15th, 16th, and 17th, with respect to occasional licences; and certain other clauses, the most important of which were two—one which provided for Ireland the same power of granting exemption from closing for the convenience of fairs, markets, and certain trades, as in England, and another, which would afford a more complete registry of licences than at present existed.