§ MR. COGHILL (Stoke-upon-Trent)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Government will now consider the advisability of abolishing the office of the Viceroy of Ireland, and of substituting for it a Secretaryship of State.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThere are undoubted anomalies in the office of Viceroy of Ireland; but the change which my hon. friend suggests, which has been often under the consideration of the House, involves questions of policy too large to be dealt with at the present moment. Certainly the Government are not going to bring in a Bill in the course of the present session.
§ MR. COGHILLHave we not had quite enough, by this time of government of Ireland by Dublin Castle?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI do not know where the new Secretary of State would carry on his work, except in Dublin Castle, and, that being the case, I do not see that my hon. friend's suggestion contains any remedy.