HC Deb 20 February 1896 vol 37 c697
DR. KENNY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether it is his intention, as reported, to bring in this Session a Bill to reduce the judicial establishment in Ireland; and, if so, whether the Bill will provide that the money saved by such reduction shall be applied to reducing the fees paid by litigants in Ireland, as suggested in a paper dealing with the subject recently read by Mr. A. W. Samuels, Q.C., before the Statistical Society of Ireland?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

The reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative, but it would be premature at present to disclose the provisions of the Bill.

DR. KENNY

asked, if the right hon. Gentleman was aware that under the Acts of 1877 and 1887 a sum amounting to £187,000, or thereabouts, had been saved to the Treasury, not a farthing of which had gone in the direction of relief of taxation in Ireland, and whether the system had been condemned?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

was not aware of the particular facts.