§ MAJOR NOLANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If the Local Government Board of Ireland, in a letter dated the 13th October 1876, promised a sworn investigation into the complaints preferred by the Moycullen Dispensary Committee against their Medical Officer; and, whether it is the fact that no such investigation has since been held notwithstanding the reiterated demands of the Moycullen Dispensary Committee that the undertaking of the Board should be observed?
§ MR. J. LOWTHERYes, Sir; it is the case that an inquiry of the description referred to was promised. The complaints were twofold. With respect to one, a sworn inquiry was held; but as to the other, it appeared that the Inspector whose duty it would have been to conduct such an inquiry happened himself to have been a witness of what occurred, and was therefore in a position to make his report without going through the formalities alluded to.