§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that the registrar of deaths in Belfast keeps his office open only after seven o'clock in the evening, consequently the burial societies do not pay amounts insured of parties who die 42 on Friday till the following Monday, and the relatives, in many cases, have not the means to pay the funeral expenses; and, whether he will try to have cause of complaint removed?
§ MR. CAMPBELL - BANNERMANI directed a letter to be written to the hon. Member on the 15th instant, informing him that there are 10 registration districts in Belfast, and that before inquiries could be made it would be necessary that he should specify the name of the particular district or of the particular registrar to whom his Question referred. The hon. Member has not since replied, nor has he amended his Question. I am, therefore, unable to answer it.
§ MR. BIGGARMight I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether the clerks in the Local Government Offices in Dublin are so very hard worked that they really could not find time to write 10 letters in order to get important information?
§ MR. CAMPBELL - BANNERMANThe hon. Member first put down his Question without saying what part of Ireland it was in which this registration had been misconducted. I then elicited from him that it was in Belfast. There are 10 registrars in Belfast, and I asked him which was the registrar he referred to.