§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that Dr. M. J. Calahan, who was called on at night to attend four urgent cases in and about Nenagh, on 6th March 1895, when no other medical man was available, and was appointed 1620 by the Nenagh Board of Guardians and the Dispensary Committee; but that, after a month's delay, the Local Government Board wrote to the Committee of the Dispensary not to pay him, on the plea of his being dismissed over 17 years since, by a sealed order, from a Dispensary for refusing to prosecute extremely poor patients for not complying with the Vaccination Act; and, whether he will look into the matter?
MR. J. MORLEYThe facts, I am informed, are substantially as stated in the question. Having regard, however, to the fact that the gentleman referred to was the only medical man available when the permanent doctor took ill, and that his services were urgently required in some cases, the Board have reconsidered the matter and authorised payment for the temporary services rendered by him.