MR.J.P.FARRELL (Longford, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case of rent collector Thomas Dolan, of Belturbet Urban Council, who has been surcharged by the Local Government auditor in the sum of £206 14s.; whether he is aware that no reasons have been given for this surcharge, and that Mr. Dolan has been for over thirty years the collector of rents in the township, during which no charge has ever been brought against him; and, seeing that the auditor gave the collector no opportunity for defence, and that Mr. Dolan has now lodged over £200 of arrears of rents, and having regard to his circumstances, whether the Local Government Board will allow him personally to appear before them in support of an appeal for its remission.
(Answered by Mr Wyndham.) My right hon. friend the Attorney-General replied to a similar Question by the hon. Member on the 21st instant. He†
† (4) Debates, cxxv., 1318.1082 pointed out that the order of the Local Government Board confirming this surcharge was the subject of proceedings in the King's Bench Division, and that in these circumstances the matter cannot be further discussed at present.