§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDEI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been called to the sworn admission of the Wexford County Surveyor, at page 11 of Return No. 149, ordered by this House to be printed on 2nd May, 1901, that he obtained £50 a year for ten years by presentment of the Wexford grand jury for a clerk and office under Section 63, of 6 and 7 Wm. 6, cap. 116, although in fact he never kept a clerk or office; and can he explain why no notice has been taken of the matter.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe hon. Baronet is, I think, in a better position to reply to this question than I am, inasmuch as I believe he was a member of the particular grand jury which he alleges overpaid this officer for many years. It was not a matter over which the Executive had any control, and it was a practice which the hon. Baronet, if he was aware of it, was bound to endeavour to prevent.
§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDESo I should have done, had I known.