MR. O'CONNOr POWERasked the Secretary to the Treasury, If it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to introduce, this Session, a Bill effecting alterations in the working of the Registry of Deeds Office (Ireland); and, if so, whether inducements will be held out to the officials in this and other public de- 419 partments where the recommendations of the Playfair Commission are not in operation, to retire on pension; and, whether the Treasury is at present prepared to entertain applications for retirement on pension from those officials?
§ MR. W. H. SMITH, in reply, said, that the Government intended, if possible, to bring in a Bill that Session in regard to the working of the Registry of Deeds Office (Ireland), and, if not, early next Session. If the legislation took the form of a reduction of the Staff, the ordinary rules applicable to the public service would be applied to the Office in question.