§ MR. D. SULLIVANOn behalf of the hon. Member for North Louth I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland if a Return, by clerks of the peace and clerks of the Crown and peace in Ireland, could be given of affidavits filed in their several offices under the default sections of the County Courts Acts, stating the number made respectively in places situate in England, Ireland, and Scotland, and abroad showing the number of cases in each county in which decrees were made for the amounts sought to be recovered, or part thereof; also in how many cases 1383 defences were entered and dismisses granted.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) Londonderry, N.No objection will be offered to the Return in question if the hon. and learned Member will move for it in the usual way. In order, however, to facilitate the preparation of the Return I would suggest that the period to be covered by it should be one of, say, five years.