§ 50. Mr. GODFREY LOCKER-LAMPSONasked whether, with reference to Clause 2 of the Government of Ireland Bill, the power of laying down the conditions under which brewing, distilling, and the manufacture of tobacco in bond may be carried on in Ireland, and the making of regulations governing the same, will be excluded from the administration of the Irish Executive, and confided entirely to the Board of Customs and Excise in London?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI must refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on 25th November by my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General in reply to an exactly similar question.
§ Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONMay I ask whether the question was not put on the Paper and never answered?
§ The PRIME MINISTERThere is the record of the OFFICIAL REPORT showing that it was answered.