§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Prime Minister whether the chairman of the committee investigating Ireland's financial relations for the benefit of the Cabinet was one of those responsible for the defective financial arrangements of the Irish Land Act of 1903, which broke down in the working of that Act, or for the findings of the Treasury Committee appointed to investigate the causes of that breakdown, which findings in turn had to be abandoned by the Government as unsustainable?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI have no information as to the names of the officials 45 who were concerned in framing the financial provisions of the Irish Land Act of 1903.
§ Mr. GINNELLCan the right hon. Gentleman say if Sir Henry Primrose was in the public service at that date?
§ The PRIME MINISTERNo doubt he was.
§ Mr. KILBRIDEMay I ask whether the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Dover and the present Member for Cork are not mainly responsible for the failure of these provisions?
§ Mr. GINNELLMay I ask the Prime Minister whether Sir Henry Primrose is now in receipt of public money either as salary or as pension?
§ The PRIME MINISTERSir Henry Primrose was a most distinguished public servant, and was for many years Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and, to the best of my knowledge—and it is certainly my hope, he is receiving a pension for those services.