§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury why the Irish Board of Works have refused to permit the band of the Dublin Workmen's Club to play a selection of music in St. Stephen's Green Public Park on Sunday evenings during the present summer?
§ MR. JACKSONSt. Stephen's Green Park is a square in the city surrounded by private residences, places of public worship, and a hospital. The Board of Works have not felt justified, under the circumstances, in permitting bands to play in it on Sundays.
§ MR. SEXTONIs not this a very large square indeed, and cannot some arrangement be made by which the band can be allowed to perform without interfering with the arrangements for divine service? I may remind the hon. and learned Gentleman that the band of the Board of Works is allowed to play in the Phoenix Park.
§ MR. JACKSONI shall be glad to make further inquiry, but I think it is hardly fair to compare this square to the Phœnix Park.