HC Deb 28 June 1906 vol 159 cc1152-3
MR. GINNELL

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is in a position to give the name of the gentleman whom it is now proposed to appoint as Judicial Land Commissioner; if not, will he give an assurance that it shall not be any one of the judges of the High Court or any other man who has been a political or class partisan; and will the appointment be made before the summer adjournment of Parliament.

MR. BRYCE

I am not aware of a vacancy, present or impending, in the office of Judicial Land Commissioner.

MR. GINNELL

Is not the right hon. Gentleman ashamed of the dishonest Answers he has read to-day?

* THE SPEAKER

That is a most improper Question. [Cries of "Withdraw."]

MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)

I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that some of the Irish Members at any rate do not sympathise with this attack upon him.

MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Cork)

I can assure the right hon. Gentleman that three-fourths of the Irish Members do not sympathise with it.