§ MR. SEXTONasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons of England are severally represented on the Committee of Inquiry as to the pay, status, and conditions of service of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy, but that neither the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland nor the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland have been accorded any representation on the Committee; whether the President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland have requested to be allowed to nominate a member to serve on the Committee, and have represented that the College received its charter for the purpose of providing a sufficient number of properly educated surgeons for the service of the Army; that it has fully carried out that function, and that the omission to provide representation 386 for the College on the Committee is felt as a slur upon the College, and threatens' injury to the interest of the several medical schools of Ireland; and that they wish to be represented when the important questions come to be decided by the Committee which will affect the interests of the Army Medical Officers who have been educated and qualified in Ireland; and, whether, having regard to this state of facts, he will allow to the two Irish Colleges the same representation which has been given unasked to the two corresponding English institutions?
§ MR. MURPHYalso asked, whether representatives of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons and Physicians of England are severally appointed to the Committee of Inquiry into the pay, status, and conditions of service of the Medical Officers of the Army and Navy; whether the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, have applied that a representative from that College should also be appointed to the Committee; whether a very large proportion, if not a majority, of the Medical Officers of the Army were educated in the Irish schools; whether representations have reached him that a refusal to comply with the request of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, will be considered as a slur upon the position of the Irish as compared with the English Colleges, to whom representation on the Committee was conceded unasked; and, whether the inequality will be removed by appointing at least one representative from the medical profession in Ireland?
§ MR. SEXTONThe right hon. Gentleman has not said that each of the two English Colleges has a representative on the Commission while no Irish College has any. Is there any person on it who is a direct representative of any interest in Ireland?
§ *MR. E. STANHOPEOne Member is appointed by the Royal College of Surgeons in England, and the other by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
§ MR. SEXTONThe right hon. Gentleman has not answered the question at all. Is there any one on the Commission who directly represents any Irish interest?
§ *MR. E. STANHOPEIn reply to another question I propose to give all the names.