§ 66. Mr. P. MEEHANasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the National Debt Commissioners have examined the appeal of the pensioners of the Royal Irish Constabulary for the State purchase of the Constabulary Force Fund (benefit branch), set out in a circular letter to Members of the House of Commons recently; if his attention has been called to charges of maladministration and to the extracts from Treasury Minutes, 20th February, 1891, admitting faultiness of administration; and if the Government will at once advance the amount necessary to purchase the subscribers, which will probably be repaid to the Treasury in about twenty-five years hence by retention of annual interest on War Loans, etc., and subsequent realisation of capital?
§ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (Mr. Bonar Law)The answer to all parts of the question is in the negative.