§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will grant a statement showing the total amount of daily remuneration for the five financial years ended 31st March, 1906, paid to deputy county court Judges in Ireland and England respectively; the average daily remuneration paid to each deputy county court Judge for the same period in Ireland and England respectively; and whether such daily remuneration has been paid in every case by each county court Judge for whom each deputy was acting.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) Deputy county court Judges are paid ordinarily by the county court Judges out of the salaries of the latter, and the Treasury has no knowledge of the amounts so paid throughout the year. I regret, therefore, that I am not able to give the information asked for in the first two parts of the Question. As regards the last part, in certain eases where there is a vacancy for the judgeship or where the Judge is absent from his circuit on duty elsewhere, the deputy is paid out of the Votes for county courts.