§ MR. O'HANLONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the removal of James Flood from the Union, Paisley, Scotland, to the Cootehill Union; whether the said James Flood served for many years in the Army, and was for a long time on the Staff of the 4th Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, and had a pension of 17s. 6d. a week; whether his removal is legal; whether it is fair to the man Flood or to the Union that, after the best of his days in the Army, ho should, at a time when his health failed him, receive such ill-treatment at the hands of the law; and whether the right hon. Gentleman will bring in a Bill to amend the present state of the law?
§ MR. SPEAKERThe last part of the question is irregular, and cannot be put.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe facts stated in the second paragraph of the question appear to be correct. The removal appears to have been legal. As to the rest of the question, I will refer the hon. Gentleman to a reply which I gave on the 22nd March, 1889.