§ CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that Mr. Michael Moran is a practising solicitor in the town of Rosecommon, and if it is with the approbation of the Lord Chancellor that this gentleman acts as clerk of the Roscommon Board of Guardians; and, if the Answer is in the affirmative, for what reasons have the Local Government Board waived the regulation requiring this gentleman to give his whole time to the duties of the clerkship.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) Mr. Moran, who is a solicitor, was in November last appointed as clerk of the Roscommon Union. There is no regulation requiring a clerk of a union to give his whole time to the duties of the office. The Lord Chancellor informs me that his approbation is in no way required for the employment of a practising solicitor as clerk of a union. He understands that there are other cases in which solicitors are similarly employed with much advantage to the public interest.