§ MR. O'DOHERTY (Donegal, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to the condition of tendering for Irish Stationery Office contracts that contractors shall take all paper, cardboard, vellum, leather, cloth, and other raw material from the Department; and whether, in view of the effect of this condition in the case of employers in the printing business in the provincial cities and towns of Ireland as compared with those of Dublin owing to the charges for freight from and to Dublin, he will take steps to have such materials delivered to contractors from Irish provincial towns free of charge.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HAYES FISHER,) FulhamThe hon. Member is under some misapprehension. The Stationery Office do not supply cardboard, vellum, leather, cloth, and other similar raw material to contractors. As regards paper, I have nothing to add to the reply given by my predecessor on May 7th, 1901.†