§ Mr. DEVLINI desire to ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether you have given further consideration to the suggestion made in the House about ten days ago that additional time should be given for the asking and answering of questions? I may say that for four weeks we have not reached an Irish question on the Paper.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe matter does not rest with me, but with the House itself.
§ Mr. DEVLINMay I respectfully suggest that you should, in the form in which you so effectively did it before, take the judgment of the House on this question?
§ Mr. SPEAKERIt would require an alteration of the Standing Order, which I fixes the time allotted to questions up to a quarter to four o'clock. I have no power to alter the Standing Order; that must be done by the House.
§ Mr. DEVLINWould I have power to do so?
§ Mr. SPEAKERCertainly, if the hon. Member will give notice of it in due course, only he must find his own day for the purpose.