§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can say if any matches of Irish manufacture are supplied to any Government Department in London or elsewhere; and whether they have been found to be satisfactory; if so, whether he could recommend the First Commissioner of Works to supply the House of Commons with them?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Treasury is cognisant of this Question only so far as 232 it relates to the Government Departments in Ireland, whose supplies of matches are obtained through the Board of Works. I am informed by that Board that the only matches which they actually supply are safety matches manufactured by an Irish firm, and involving no use of the ingredients to which attention has lately been called.