§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, having regard to the recommendation of the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Municipal Trading that none but members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants or of the Incorporated Society of Accountants and Auditors should be appointed by local authorities as auditors, he will undertake that in any future appointments as public auditors in Ireland the same qualifications will be insisted upon that the Joint Committee urged in the case of the local auditors who are subject to the public auditors.
§ MR. WALTER LONGLocal Government Board auditors in Ireland have to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners not only of their knowledge of accounts, but also of their general proficiency, including a knowledge of the Poor Laws. The questions which come before them for decision are questions of law quite as much as of accounts. No change in the present system of appointment is proposed.