§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether, having regard to his promise of legislation on the subject of the area of Poor Law Taxation in Ireland, and the admitted necessity for such legislation, he will introduce his intended Bill on that subject on an early day?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, there were other important subjects relating to Ireland to which it would perhaps be his duty to call the attention of the House before he approached the subject alluded to in the hon. Member's Question; but he must say, looking at the state of Public Business, he did not think it desirable to introduce a Bill on the subject before he could see a reasonable prospect of passing it.