MR. PATRICK O'BRIENOn behalf of the hon. Member for North Kerry, I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state if Mr. S. E. Collis, of Tiereclea, Tarbert, county Kerry, has recently been appointed to the Commission of the Peace; whether Mr. Collis was at any previous time a magistrate; and, if so, why has he been appointed now a second time; and on what grounds and on whose recommendation was Mr. Collis recently appointed a magistrate.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURMr. Collis, who had been an active magistrate for twenty years, resigned his Commission of the Peace in 1893 in order to become a candidate for a county office which he obtained. That office having been abolished by the Local Government Act, he was last year re-apppointed to the magistracy on the recommendation of the Lieutenant of the county, who considered him a fit and proper person to be a magistrate.