§ MR. GIBNEY (Meath, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Navan relieving officer, at the request of the clerk of the Union, did five days' duty last October in the lie-vision Court, in the belief that he would be paid for the extra work; and that the Guardians were most anxious to remunerate him, but the Local Government Board refused to sanction this; and will he inquire into the circumstances?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Local Government Board were advised that payments could not be legally made out of the rates to relieving officers for attending at the Revision Courts, and it was not therefore within the power of the Board to sanction the payments referred to in this question.