HC Deb 23 August 1895 vol 36 cc670-1
MR. C. J. ENGLEDOW (Kildare, N.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether his attention, has been called to the fact that the following civil bill officers, viz.: Halpin, Manders, Nelson and Young, who are attached to the Kildare County Court, are in the habit of acting as inspectors for the Conservative Party at the Parliamentary revision courts; whether it is regular for county court officials and sheriffs' officers to take an active part in political organisations: whether he is aware that the county court judge of Carlow, who is also county court judge of Kildare, prevented a Carlow civil bill officer from appearing as a party inspector in Carlow Revision Court; and, whether he will take steps to prevent the above-named civil bill officers, and all sheriffs' officers, from appearing as party inspectors in the revision courts at the forthcoming revision for the county of Kildare?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

I have not yet been able to obtain a Report on this question, and must ask the hon. Member to postpone it for a day or two.