§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether it has been brought to his notice that requisition forms issued by the town clerk of the City of Dublin for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to the franchise as inhabitant householders have been improperly collected and filled up by party registration agents with the names of unqualified persons, and signed with the landlord's name without his authority; and whether he proposes to take any action in reference to the matter.
§ MR. CHERRYThe allegation contained in the Question was brought to my notice, and I directed inquiries to be made some time ago with the object of instituting a prosecution. The inquiries are being made, and if the evidence available is sufficient a prosecution will be instituted.
§ MR. J. MACVEAGHIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that at the Greenstrent Police Court, Dublin, before Judge Gibson, in 1902, a well-known magistrate was convicted of tampering with the registration form for the county of Dublin?
§ *MR. SPEAKERThe hon. Member must give notice of that.