§ The following question stood on the Paper in the name of Mr. BRADY:
§ 29. To ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland who were the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests in Ireland who recently submitted their resignations to the Government, and which of these Commissioners persisted in resigning in spite of his request to them to retain their office; 2276 when these resignations took effect; if they were announced in the "Gazette"; if the vacant posts have yet been filled; if those resigning stated that in so doing they were protesting against as unqualified Treasury refusal to give effect to a carefully considered, reasoned, unanimous, and reiterated opinion of the Board; if he will state whether it is proposed to persist in the reduction by small amounts of the salaries of officials with important, responsible, and constantly increasing duties in face of the fact that this reduction has resulted in the loss of the unpaid public services of Commissioners of such long standing and repute as those Privy Councillors, judges, and prominent commercial and professional men who have lately resigned their office?
§ Mr. SHORTTI must ask the hon. Member to postpone this question. It was only put down on the Paper yesterday, and it has been impossible to get the information from Ireland to enable me to answer it.
I would take this opportunity of asking hon. Members in future to give at least two or three days' notice of questions in regard to which information has to be obtained from Ireland.
§ Mr. BRADYBy way of personal explanation, may I be allowed to inform the right hon. and learned Gentleman that I put the question down the day before yesterday? Still, I am quite prepared to postpone it till Tuesday.