General M`CALMONTasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether he will state the names and qualifications of the Committee for Food Control in Ireland; and whether the Committee has full executive powers of its own in Ireland, or whether it acts in an advisory capacity only?
Mr. PARKERThe names and qualifications of the members of the Irish Food Control Committee are as follows:
The Committee acts in both an executive and an advisory capacity. Its executive powers are expressly conferred by Orders of the Food Controller made under the Defence of the Realm Regulations.
- The Right Hon. F. S. Wrench (Chairman); an Irish Land Commissioner and an Estates Commissioner for Ireland, formerly agricultural member of the Congested Districts Board.
- Dr. Ella G. A. Webb; a medical practitioner and well-known philanthropic worker in Dublin.
1323 - Mr. Edmund Bourke; a Commissioner of the Local Government Board for Ireland.
- Sir Thomas Stafford; until recently a medical member of the Local Government Board for Ireland.
- Mr. J. R. Campbell; Assistant Secretary in the Irish Department of Agriculture.
- Mr. J. Minch; a practical agriculturist, late Chairman of the Carlow County Council.
- Mr. D. J. Daly; a wholesale grocer in Cork.
- Mr. W. S. Green; a grain merchant in Cork.
- Mr. Martin McDonagh; Chairman of the Galway Urban District Council and member of the Galway County Council.