§ MR. D. SULLIVAN (Westmeath, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if the Local Government Board have in any case declined to insist on the filling up of a vacancy in a dispensary district where it is kept open an unusual or improper length of time; and whether, under such circumstances, it would be their duty to fill up the appointment themselves, or to intimate their determination to withhold their ultimate sanction to the appointment of any person in whose interest the vacancy was kept open?
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOE IRELAND (Mr. J.MORLEY,) Newcastle-upon-TyneIt is the practice of the Local Government Board to urge Dispensary Committees to fill vacancies in the office of medical officer within a reasonable time. As regards the second paragraph, the Board will consider what course they will adopt when any specific instance of failure on the part of a Committee to make an appointment comes under their notice.