MR. O'KEEFFE (Limerick City)asked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, If he can state the numbers of all bankruptcy adjudications, arrangement cases, and compositions after bankruptcy from Limerick City and County, from the North Riding of County Tipperary, 1235 Clare, and north of Kerry within the past five years; whether those districts at present constitute the probate jurisdiction of the Registry at Limerick; whether he can state the amount of liabilities involved in such bankruptcy cases; and, whether he will consider the advisability of constituting the City of Limerick a centre for examination of witnesses and winding up of such insolvent estates?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN) (Dublin University), in reply, said, he was not at present in a position to give the hon. and learned Gentleman the information he desired in the first paragraph of his Question. The answer to the second paragraph was in the affirmative.