§ MR. CLANCYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been directed to the case of Mr. Andrew James M'Caughey, second class officer of Excise, Dublin, who died in August last of typhoid fever contracted in an insanitary station in the discharge of his duty; whether the application of the widow of Mr. M'Caughey for compensation for the loss of her husband has been refused by the Board of Inland Revenue, although the Board are responsible for the insanitary condition of the stores in which Mr. M'Caughey was employed, and although Mr. M'Caughey had served a period sufficient to entitle him to a pension if, instead of being killed, he had been merely incapacitated; and whether Mrs. M'Caughey's application for compensation will now be re-considered?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI have consulted the Commissioners of Inland Revenue on this case, and am informed that the Board have had a Report from the Sanitary Officer of the District, and have satisfied themselves that the station was not in an insanitary condition. In these circumstances, the Treasury have no power to make a grant to Mrs. M'Caughey.