HC Deb 27 July 1916 vol 84 c1875
Mr. DILLON

I wish to make a very brief personal explanation in reference to something that passed in the Debate last night. On the 17th July the hon. and gallant Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Major W. Guinness) asked a question in reference to three clerks in the Land Commission who were suspended, and last night I stated, when contradicting a statement of the hon. and gallant Member, that I could speak from personal knowledge of the case of Patrick Sheehan, who was one of the, clerks named. On thinking the matter over I recollected that that was an error on my part, and that the man about whom I had personal knowledge was Mr. R. Rooney, another of the clerks mentioned. It is a matter of very trifling importance, but as I did contradict the hon. and gallant Member I think I must now make him an apology and say that I could not speak with personal knowledge of the case of Patrick Sheehan.