HC Deb 12 May 1885 vol 298 c357
MR. HEALY

asked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, Whether a certificate, signed by the parish priest and two prominent parishioners of the parish in which a person desirous of prosecuting an appeal to the House of Lords resides, will, as regards Roman Catholic poor persons resident in Ireland, be accepted by the Appeal Committee of that House in substitution of the certificate at present required to accompany the Petition to be lodged for liberty to appeal in forma pauperis, signed by the Protestant minister and churchwardens, who are as a rule utterly ignorant of the extent or nature of the resources of such Roman Catholics as also sent?

THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. Walker)

said, that this Question only appeared on the Paper to-day; but, at the same time, he might say that this was a matter for the House of Lords itself.