HC Deb 25 June 1897 vol 50 cc564-5
MR. DALY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that Lord Ross-more, recently appointed Lieutenant of County Monaghan, was a dismissed magistrate; and whether he can state if any similar case of appointing a dismissed magistrate to the Lieutenancy of a. county has occurred in Ireland; and, if so, when?

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND

Lord Rossmore was superseded in the Commission of the Peace in November, 1883, and was reinstated in August, 1892. He has for 23 years tilled the office of deputy Lieutenant, to which his supersession did not extend. I am not aware of any case similar to that of Lord Rossmore, who, as I have pointed out, though once superseded, held the Commission of the Peace at the date of his appointment to the Lieutenancy of the county, and has never been disturbed in his tenure of the Deputy Lieutenancy.

MR. W. JOHNSTON

Did not Lord Rossmore's dismissal occur under a Home Rule Government, and because——

*MR. SPEAKER

intervened, saying that the Question had been fully answered.