§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR: (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether 194 he will order an inquiry into the cause of the increased cost of maintaining lunatics in the Richmond Asylum.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe regulation of expenditure on the maintenance of lunatics in the asylum is placed entirely in the hands of the Committee of Management, by the 9th Section of the Local Government Act of 1898. The Executive exercises no control in the matter so long as the standard of treatment of the patients is such as to justify payment of the capitation grant. The reply to the Question is, therefore, in the negative.
§ MR. JAMES O'CONNORAnd is there no remedy against these constant increases?
§ MR. WYNDHAMNot at the hands of the Executive, to my knowledge.