§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will give the name of the author of there portions of the regulations issued to the Estates Commissioners under the late Government which these Commissioners afterwards declared to have been invalid, unreasonable, vague, and subversive of the law; is the author of these regulations still in the service of the present Government in the same department, without any diminution of salary or restriction of power; and, if so, what is his salary, and why is he retained.
MR. BRYCEThe regulations in question were issued by the late Government, and I do not know who was particularly responsible for suggesting any part of them. Even if I did know, it would be entirely against the rules of the public service to attribute responsi- 1068 bility to any persons other than the Minister of the Crown.
§ MR. GINNELLIs the right hon. Gentleman in a position to deny that Sir Antony Macdonnell is the author?