§ MR. KAVANAGHasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the statement published in one of the leading Dublin journals of Monday is correct, to the effect that it is the intention of 1215 Government to appoint local boards of management in Ireland, with a commisioner or commissioners to superintend them, the local board to have the management of the County Cess, and the discharge of the other duties now performed by the associated cess-payers, the magistrates, and the grand jury; that the districts for which these local boards of management are to be appointed are to be co-extensive with the existing Poor Law Unions; that officials are now confidentially employed in procuring statistics and making reports as to the method of carrying out the territorial alterations which these changes would necessitate owing to the boundaries of the Poor Law Unions not being co-terminous with those of the counties?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONreplied that he proposed on Monday to introduce a Bill for amending the Irish Grand Jury Law. It would be more convenient to reserve the details of it till that day; but he might assure the hon. Member that the statement referred to by him was very far from correct.