§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Commissioners of National Education, some twenty years ago, dismissed Mr. J. G. Fitzgerald, when he was the Inspector of the Waterford District of Convent and Model and Parochial National Schools, for a delinquency in connection with his travelling charges, and what was the exact date of his dismissal; and, whether it is not now under the consideration of the Commissioners of National Education and the Treasury to give him a pension?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANMr. Fitzgerald was dismissed between five and six years ago, on the ground stated in this Question. The date of the Board's Order was the 29th of January, 1879. It is not under consideration to give Mr. Fitzgerald a pension.