§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (Cork)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Rev. Matthew Kerr was recently appointed Presbyterian Chaplain to the Cork Lunatic Asylum at a salary of £ 12 a-year; whether the Lord Lieutenant has refused to sanction the appointment on the grounds of the fewness of the Presbyterian inmates; what provision is intended to be made for the religious instruction of the Presbyterian inmates; 500 what number of inmates professing a particular creed are necessary to obtain the sanction of His Excellancy to the appointment of a chaplain for them; whether he is aware that in many Irish workhouses where the Protestant inmates do not amount to half-a-dozen, chaplains of that faith are appointed with the sanction of the Local Government Board; and, whether there is any difference in practice on this point between workhouses and lunatic asylums; and, if so, why?
HE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN)(who replied) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)said, that objection was first taken to the appointment; but the matter was now under re-consideration.
§ MR. MAURICE HEALYWhen will the final decision be given in the matter?
§ COLONEL KING-HARMANAs soon as possible.