§ MR. LAWSON (St. Pancras, W.)asked the First Commissioner of Works, If his attention has been called to a Memorial presented by four assistants in the Furniture Department of the Office of Works dismissed in 1884; whether they have asked for an impartial inquiry to elicit all the facts of the case, not known at the time of the dismissal of MacGillivray and his three fellow clerks; and, whether, under these circumstances, he will reconsider the decision which was then arrived at to refuse all further inquiry?
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER (Mr. PLUNKET) (Dublin University)The case of the four assistants in the Furniture Department of the Office of Works dismissed in 1884 was, I am informed, very carefully gone into at the time, and has been further considered by each of my Predecessors in Office, and I cannot hold out any hope that I can depart from their decisions; but I shall read through the Papers myself with a view to seeing whether any new facts have been adduced.