§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) whether his attention has been drawn to the advertisement of the Norwich Union Insurance Company, in which the name of Viscount Ikerrin figures as a director of the Dublin board of the company; whether Viscount Ikerrin holds the office of inspector for Irish agricultural interests in Great Britain in the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction 1151 (Ireland) at a salary of £600 per annum; whether it is in accordance with the rules of the Department and of the Civil Service that a Civil Servant and an officer of the Department should hold a directorship of a public company; and what explanation, if any, is there for the union of the offices of public company director and inspector of Irish Agricultural interests by this nobleman.
§ THE VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR IRELAND (Mr. T. W. RUSSELL, Tyrone, 8.)On learning the facts, which are substantially us stated in the Question, I communicated with Lord Ikerrin suggesting the resignation of his position as a director of the Norwich Union Insurance Company. He has ceased to hold that office.