§ MR. T. W. BROWNasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland why the terms of reference to the Committee about to inquire into Irish County Court and local registration of title matters ignore the existence of the subordinate stalls, while the terms of reference to the similar Committee at present engaged upon an inquiry into English County Court affairs covers the interests of the English County Court subordinate staffs; and is he aware that in the terms of reference to the Irish Committee there is a proposal to amalgamate salaries of officials with allowances for payment of the subordinate staffs into one sum, and that to put such a proposal into practice would make it to the interest of the officials in question to underpay the subordinate staffs for their own personal profit?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONMy hon. and learned Friend appears to be under a misapprehension. The reference to the Irish Committee does not ignore the existence of the subordinate staffs of clerks of the Crown and Peace. The staffs of these officers, who are remunerated from clerical allowance provided for the latter, will be afforded every facility for placing their views before the Committee, and the Association of Land Registry and County Court Assistants has been so informed. The reference to this Committee contains no proposal of the character suggested in the second part of the question. The Irish Government has no official information as to the reference to the English Committee.