§ MR. T. A. DICKSONasked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, Whether in any Registration Bill to be brought in for the purpose of placing on the registries the great numbers of additional voters entitled to the franchise, provision will be made for the remuneration of clerks of unions, rate collectors, and other officials, for their greatly increased duties, and if the Bill will provide that the expense shall not fall upon the ratepayers?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER)The matter to which the hon. Member refers in this Question is a very important one, and is at the present moment under the consideration of the Irish Government. I will communicate the result to the hon. Member at the earliest moment.
§ MR. HEALYasked whether the Irish Government would follow the course adopted in England and Scotland by asking the Irish Revising Barristers as to the character of the Bill for Ireland?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. WALKER)said, he could 846 not give any opinion on that matter. The Government were making the best inquiries they could.