§ THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN (Mr. SEXTON)(for Dr. KENNY) (Cork, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the P. J. Keenan, whose name appears as signing several recent Dublin Castle Proclamations, is the same person as the paid official of that name, the Resident Commissioner of National Education, Ireland; and, whether, in future, the Government will take steps to put a stop to the practice of requiring a paid official occupying such a position as that of National Education Commissioner from being identified with acts of the Executive Government?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)It is not 550 within my province to interfere with the discretion which Privy Councillors may use in the exercise of duties imposed upon the Privy Council by Act of Parliament. But I may inform the hon. Member that Sir Patrick Keenan has signed no Proclamation of the kind to which the hon. Member seems to refer.
§ MR. SEXTONAs this Gentleman has been turned into a tool of Dublin Castle, I will move at the proper time to strike his salary out of the National Education Estimates.