HC Deb 15 February 1900 vol 79 cc101-2
MR. DALY

I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, seeing that recently gentlemen differing politically from the Government have been promoted to be judges in England and Scotland, he can state when the same course will be adopted by the Government in Ireland as that adopted by the Government in England and Scotland in this matter.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I hope that in each of these three kingdoms the appointments made will be the best in the public interest, having regard to all the circumstances of the case.

CAPTAIN DONELAN

IS it not the fact that there is not a single Nationalist on the Irish judicial bench?

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I am not aware of that fact.