MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Treasury will consider the advisability of requiring the spending department in Ireland to advertise all contracts locally, with a view to economy?
§ MR. HANBURYIt is certainly my desire that contracts under Departments connected with the Treasury should be advertised in such a way as to ensure the greatest efficacy as well as economy, and I am considering the matter.
MR. PATRICK O'BRIENIs not the right honourable Gentleman aware that yesterday the Under Secretary of State for War admitted that an important contract had been given in Kilkenny to an outsider, and that it was not advertised?
§ MR. HANBURYThat had nothing to do with the Treasury.