§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Cork Town Council have declined to pay the amount applied for by the Board of Governors of the Cork District Lunatic Asylum, on the ground that their body and the citizens have no direct representation on the Asylum Board; whether he can state what representation on that Board is the Cork Corporation entitled to; and why such representation is denied to the Municipal Authorities in Cork?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.The facts are as stated in the first paragraph. Under the recent scheme adopted by the Irish Government, with a view to giving direct representation on District Lunatic Asylum Boards to the several presenting bodies, four representatives were to be chosen by the Lord Lieutenant from nominees of the Cork Corporation. The Corporation, however, nominated for the four places four of their members only, which would remove from the Lord Lieutenant the power of exercising his statutory responsibility for the selection of Governors. This was pointed out to the Corporation, but they declined to send forward any additional names. The Lord Lieutenant then felt obliged to select from the general body of the Corporation four of its members to serve as its representative on the Asylum Board.
§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)In a precisely analogous case in Dublin were not the Corporation allowed to nominate 10 members? Why should there be one rule for Dublin and another for Cork?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThere is not one rule for Dublin and another for Cork. No additional names have been submitted.