§ MR. HEALYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he can announce that the vacant inspectorship in the Local Government Board will be filled by a gentleman of the same religion as the late inspector?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Local Government Board have selected Dr. Wood-House, who has twice acted as temporary Inspector, for the Medical Inspectorship rendered vacant by the death of Dr. Roughan. It has, I understand, always been the practice of the Department to promote a temporary Inspector to the permanent office when he is eligible; and Dr. Woodhouse had performed his work in a very efficient manner. Dr. Roughan was a Catholic; Dr. Woodhouse is a Protestant. Of the three Medical Inspectors there will, I am informed, after Dr. Woodhouse's appointment, be two Catholics and one Protestant. This was the state of things up to the year 1876.
§ MR. HEALYasked whether Dr. Woodhouse was appointed because he had supported the starvation policy?
§ [No reply.]