§ Mr. BRADYasked why an additional junior clerk has not been appointed to the Taxing Office. Four Courts, Dublin, in pursuance of the unanimous recommendation of the Registrar to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Court of Appeal, the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, and the Treasury Remembrancer in Ireland, being the committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to inquire into the nature and extent of the duties of the staff of the taxing masters of the Supreme Court, in Ireland; and whether he is aware that the recommendation of the said committee, made as far back as November, 1909, had the entire approval of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who recommended that the views in the Report should be given effect to as soon as possible?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe Treasury have received no recommendation from the Lord Chancellor of Ireland on this subject.
§ Mr. BRADYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Secretary to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland on 4th November, 1909, wrote that:—
His Lordship had carefully considered the Report"— (referred to in the question on the Paper)—"and he entirely agrees with the views and recommendations therein set out.And whether the Secretary was directed to express the hope that the recommendations contained in the Report would be given effect to as soon as possible.
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI can only convey to the House the information the Lord Chancellor of Ireland gives me.
§ Mr. BRADYIs it not a fact that the right hon. Gentleman's own representative, namely, the Treasury Remembrancer, was a member of this Commission which unanimously reported in favour of the additional clerk in the Department?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThat does not arise out of the question on the Paper.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe right hon. Gentleman cannot have it in his mind for the moment. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman had better put it down on the Paper.
§ Mr. BRADYI do not wish to detain the House, but I have already put it down three times upon the Paper.