§ MR. CONNOR (Antrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether District Inspector Macdermot, of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who was transferred in August last, at his own expense, from Galway to Nenagh and censured by the Inspector General, is the same gentleman whose name was gazetted in October last as having been appointed to one of the vacancies in the Irish Resident Magistracy; and, if so, upon whose recommendation was he appointed?
§ CAPTAIN McCALMONT (Antrim, E.)I should like also to ask the right hon. Gentleman if District Inspector Macdermot is not a near relation of the Attorney General for Ireland?
*MR. J. MORLEYI think that the remark which has just fallen from the hon. and gallant Member is not in the best possible taste. I can only say that when the appointment was made I was 869 entirely unaware of the relationship which, I believe, is not a very near one.