§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether the defalcation in the Corcoran case was found to have stood roughly at £600 at the time the present Controller of the Sorting Office, Dublin, took over charge from his predecessor, and what was the precise amount of the defalcation at that time; whether any officers now occupying positions of authority or control had at any time borrowed money from Mr. Corcoran; and, if so, who were those officers; whether the present Controller before he attained that position had, in his capacity of chief clerk and examining officer, passed daily for some years falsified entries of cash and stamps in the Daily Cash Account; how far back was the system of false entries found to extend, and what was the amount of the earliest false entry; and what were the dates and amounts of 733 the various I.O.U.'s that formed part of the Controller's cash balance.
LORD STANLEYThe Corcoran case was fully investigated by my predecessor in office at the time, and severe disciplinary measures were taken. In my opinion, no good purpose would be served by again going into such matters as those referred to in the hon. Member's Question after a lapse of four years.