§ MR. VESEY KNOXI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the inspector deputed to inquire into the disciplinary management of the Monaghan and Cavan Lunatic Asylum, will investigate the circumstances under which George King, a warder of less than six months' service who at the meeting of governors in March last pleaded guilty to a serious breach of discipline, has received an increase of pay in preference to 25 senior warders?
*MR. JOHN MORLEYOne of the Inspectors of Lunatic Asylums will inquire at an early date into certain matters affecting the discipline of the Monaghan Asylum. The appointment and dismissal of the staffs of attendants of District Asylums are, however, matter vested under the existing law in the Boards of Governors of these institutions. No charge I am informed has been brought against the attendant named in the question at any meeting of the Governors of the Monaghan Asylum. This attendant entered the service on the 1st November 1894, as a second-class attendant, on the understanding that he should be promoted to the first-class when a vacancy occurred; and was so promoted on the 28th February last. No attendant, so I am informed, has been deprived of promotion on his account.