MR. F. A. O'KEEFFEI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland (1) if, in view of the recent expressions of opinions of the citizens and solicitors of Limerick, the Government will reconsider the question of establishing a local Court of Bankruptcy in the city of Limerick; and (2) whether Limerick would be a convenient centre for the disposal of bankruptcy cases arising also in the county of Clare and parts of the counties of Cork, Tipperary, and Kerry?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELANDAs, according to the information supplied to me, only 12 persons resident in the county and city of Limerick became bankrupt in the years 1893, 1894, and 1895, and only 18 carried arrangements with their creditors, and only eight persons residing in the county of Clare became bankrupt and five carried arrangements within the same period, the Government do not consider it necessary to establish a local Bankruptcy Court at Limerick. With regard to the second paragraph, the counties of Cork and Kerry are included within the jurisdiction of the local Bankruptcy Court of Cork, and any subdivision of counties into districts attached to different courts would occasion much inconvenience.