§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is intended that the pensions charged on the Concordatum Fund shall in future be given for the lives of the recipients, as was the custom until last year; and, whether it is the intention of the Lord Lieutenant to continue the system of investigating the claims of applicants for pensions charged on this Fund, which was established by Lord Spencer, and gave such general satisfaction?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACHSir, in December last the Treasury notified to the Irish Government that it was their intention that in future no fresh pensions should be created, and no new recipients of donations nominated in connection with the Concordatum 1146 Fund; and that, as pensions ceased, the Annual Vote should be gradually reduced and finally extinguished. It is, therefore, not in the power of the Lord Lieutenant to grant any more pensions from the Concordatum Fund.