I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, as President of the Irish Local Government Board or otherwise, he is aware that a person named Peter Cawley, though not a member, constantly speaks and votes at meetings of the Sligo County Council; that the Local Government Board recently declined to sanction the election of a county surveyor on the ground of the- invalidity of the vote of this person; whether he is aware that this person has since spoken and voted at meetings of the council; and, as no one in Sligo would venture to prosecute, will the Local Government Board take steps to prosecute Cawley for illegally acting and voting as a county councillor.
I am informed that the person named in the Question occasionally speaks and has voted at meetings of the Sligo County Council. It is the fact that the Local Government Board have declined to sanction the appointment of county surveyor owing to the invalidity of the vote of this gentleman. Inquiry is being made as to the latter part of the Question.