§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will explain why the practice of the Local Government Board to appoint to vacancies on the permanent staff temporary inspectors who have satisfactorily discharged their duties has been departed from within the past few days in the transfer of Mr. Charles O'Connor from the position of auditor to that of inspector, and state the special circumstances which necessitated the transfer of Mr. O'Connor; and whether, seeing that Mr. Wilson Lynch has been for several years a temporary inspector and has discharged his duties to the satisfaction of the Local Government Board, he will before the post of auditor is filled, consider the desirability of again attaching Mr. O'Connor to the Audit Department.
§ MR. WYNDHAMIn filling vacancies on the Staff of Inspectors the Local Government Board invariably proceeds upon the principle of selecting persons who, in the Board's opinion, are the most competent and best qualified. That principle was followed in the case of the vacancy mentioned.