HC Deb 24 October 1899 vol 77 cc587-8
MR. MAURICE HEALY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will lay upon the Table a Return of the names of the assistant commissioners employed by the Irish Land Commission as appeal valuers, showing the length of service and qualification of each.

MR. G. W. BALFOUR

I am forwarding to the hon. Member a Return containing the information referred to. It is not considered necessary to lay the information on the Table of the House in the form of a Parliamentary Paper.

MR. MAURICE HEALY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will lay upon the Table of the House, as a Return, a copy of the examination papers set at the recent test examination for assistant land commissioners.

MR. G. W. BALFOUR

The papers set at the examination held in April last for the position of lay assistant land commissioner were duly published and may be purchased through any bookseller. The Civil Service Commissioners have not considered it necessary to publish the papers set at the examination more recently held, and it does not appear to them to be desirable, or necessary, to give the papers in the form of a Parliamentary Return.

MR. MAURICE HEALY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Third Return of Estates to which Section 40 of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1896, applies for the period ending in the year 1891 has been laid upon the Table of the House and printed; and, if not, whether this will now be done, as in the case of the previous Returns.

MR. G. W. BALFOUR

The Return will be laid on the Table in dummy either to-day or to-morrow, and will be ready for circulation in the course of a few weeks.