§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been directed to the fact that the Local Government Board have inserted in the Leinster Express a statutory notice, under the provisions of the Labourers' (Ireland) Act, with reference to an improvement scheme made by the Board of Guardians of the Celbridge Union; whether he is aware that the Leinster Express is published in Maryborough, in the Queen's County, and has no circulation whatever outside that county; and can he explain why such notices have not been inserted in the Kildare local journals?
§ MR. MADDENI believe that the fact mentioned is correct, but the matter is one which is in the hands of the Local Government Board.
MR. MAC NEILLIs not the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Leinster Express is published at Maryborough, 60 miles from Celbridge, and that it is a fourpenny paper with a very limited circulation. Under the circumstances, is it not a waste of public money to insert the Local Government advertisements in that paper? Why should they not be inserted in preference in the Dublin or Kildare papers?
§ MR. MADDENI can only give the information I have been supplied with. I presume that the Local Government Board Exercise a discretion in the matter, and consider that this is the best means of advertising.
§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)Why is their discretion always exercised in favour of a Tory paper?
§ MR. MADDENI do not think they are open to any such imputation.