§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the chief clerk of the Agricultural Department acted wholly on his own initiative in sending for one of the Catholic clerks of the veterinary branch and suggesting to him that he should withdraw from the written representations which that clerk and other Catholic
† See (4) Debates, cxlii., 586.664 gentlemen of the branch had laid before the Department in May last; and, if not, can he state definitely the name of the administrative official under whose authority such action was taken.
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe first part of this Question was answered by my right hon. friend on the 1st instant.‡