§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is with the concurrence of the Local Government Board for Ireland that the Ely Dispensary, in the town of Derrygonnilly, county Fermanagh, is used as the head-quarters of the Orange Flute Band, where its uniform and musical instruments are deposited; do the members of Derrygonnilly Orange Lodge use this Dispensary as a place of meeting; are the Orange flags stored there; and, are these flags, and party emblems, hung out from its windows on Orange anniversaries?
§ MR. TREVELYANI am informed that the Orange Lodge have for the last 30 years used as head-quarters a room in the building occupied as a dispensary, and that this has been done by special 1102 permission or agreement with the landlord of the premises. The dispensary part frequented by the public has never been put to any of the purposes mentioned. The Orange Lodge has not, I am informed, met there during the last two years, nor does the band practice there; but the instruments are stored in the room referred to, and flags have been hung out on the occasion of anniversaries. The matter is not one in which the Local Government Board could interfere authoritatively; but I have asked them to submit it to the Guardians at their next meeting with a view of ascertaining fully their views on the subject. The Guardians have not met since this Question was on the Paper.