HC Deb 15 March 1869 vol 194 cc1355-6
MR. FITZWILLIAM DICK

said, he rose to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether Government have it in contemplation to introduce a Bill this Session to amend the Bankruptcy Law of Ireland, with the view of assimilating the Law in that Country with the changes which are about to be introduced into the Bankruptcy Law of England?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. SULLIVAN)

replied, that it was not the intention of the Government immediately to bring in a Bill on this subject. Her Majesty's Government were, however, deeply impressed with the importance of amending the Law of Bankruptcy in Ireland, and if the measure which his hon. and learned Friend the Attorney General for England had introduced should pass into law he (Mr. Sullivan) would bring forward a Bill to extend its provisions to Ireland. If a measure relating to both countries had been brought forward great inconvenience might have been the result.