Mr. DUNDAS WHITEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, in view of the Perjury Act, 1911, which simplified and consolidated the law of perjury and repealed provisions relating to perjury in more than 130 Acts so far as England and Wales are concerned, whether he will consider the advisability of introducing a similar measure for Ireland, so as to simplify and consolidate the law of perjury in these 1647W countries and to complete, so far as Ireland is concerned, the repeal of these and various other statutory provisions relating to perjury?
§ Mr. BIRRELLIt would doubtless be an advantage if the law relating to perjury in Ireland were consolidated, but, so far as I am aware, no great inconvenience arises from the absence of a consolidating statute, and, in the present state of business, it would not be possible to deal with the subject.