§ COLONEL SAUNDERSON (Armagh, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to 288 the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland how many bound copies of the Parliamentary Debates are supplied to the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, free of charge, and at the expense of the trustees; and whether he could arrange that one copy of the daily issue of the Debates could be supplied, free of charge, to the library for the use of students and readers who require to refer to these Debates without waiting for the bound volumes heretofore supplied?
§ MR. ATKINSONAll official publications are regularly supplied to the National Library of Ireland without charge. The Parliamentary Debates are not, however, official publications, but the property of the publisher, and any copies supplied to the National Library of Ireland would in ordinary course be bought by the library authorities out of moneys voted for the Department.