§ 78. Mr. VINCENT KENNEDYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will furnish the hon. Member for West Cavan with the names of the eighty-six Catholic magistrates for Cavan as set out in the Return to the hon. Member for South Down, No. 369; will he say from what source the figures set out in the said Return were procured; and, if the figures in this Return for county Cavan be wrong, will he state what are the true figures?
§ The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. Birrell)The Lord Chancellor informs me that it is not the practice to identify the magistrates belonging to any religious denomination by giving their names; but of the eighty-six magistrates of the county Cavan who were stated in the Return referred to as belonging to the Roman Catholic religion, the information in that respect was in seventy-seven cases obtained from the magistrates themselves, and in the other nine cases from personal knowledge or official sources.
§ Mr. KENNEDYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the only public record available to Members of this House shows there are only sixty-seven, and not eighty-six?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI do not know. If seventy-seven gentlemen say they are Roman Catholics I cannot help them.