§ MR. CULLINAN (Tipperary, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the South Tipperary County Council will be expected to pay rent for and maintain the county Courthouse, over which they are not permitted to exercise any control whatever, and which the sheriff without recognition of their views and obligations allows the use of, amongst others, for a tea and bridge club.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe Answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. I have already explained that the sheriff, in accordance with a practice of many years standing, has, with the general assent of the community and, I understand, of the majority of the county council and to the inconvenience of no person, permitted a portion of the Courthouse called the Assembly Rooms to be used for social amusements.