§ MR. MACVEAGH (Down, S.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether he can state if the children of the late William John Loughrey, of Camnish, Limavady, county Derry, are still within the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery; whether, in view of the fact that the father and mother were married by a Catholic clergyman, that the father died in communion with the Catholic Church, and that the mother is a Catholic, he can state if the children are being educated as Catholics and in a Catholic institution, and whether the mother has access to her children.
§ MR. ATKINSONI am informed by the Registrar of the Court of Chancery that these children are still within the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor. I have no information as to the remaining statements in the Question, but I understand that the children are being educated, by the Lord Chancellor's order, in a Presbyterian institution. The matter is not one in which the Executive Government can interfere.
§ MR. MACVEAGHIs that a matter over which the Lord Chancellor has control? Is it legal for children to be brought up in a different religion to that professed by the parents?
§ *MR. SPEAKERA mere question of law should not be asked.
§ MR. MACVEAGHI thought the right hon. Gentleman knew the law. I apologise for asking him.