asked the Minister for Finance whether he is aware that on the 31st day of January, 1928, in an action of Henry Sheil v. the Attorney-General. Mr. Justice Meredith delivered judgment declaring Mr. Sheil entitled to the sum of £200 as compensation for loss of office, and directing that that sum and the taxed costs of the action be paid out of funds to be provided by the Oireachtas; that the costs were subsequently taxed at the sum of £91 16s. 8d; and, if so, what steps, if any, he has taken or proposes to take to raise and pay to Henry Sheil the said sum of £291 16s. 8d.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - COMPENSATION FOR LOSS OF OFFICE.
The answers to the first two parts of the question are in the affirmative. Provision will be made in connection with this and other similar cases in the legislation on the general question of Article 10 of the Treaty which, as I have already informed the House, it is my intention to introduce as soon as practicable. Meanwhile, I do not propose to take any steps of the nature indicated in the concluding part of the question.
Is the Minister aware that this case has nothing to do with the question of the bonus or the cost of living, both of which were subject matters for decision in the Wigg-Cochrane case.
There were other matters in question in that case. The question of justiciability was also one of the points raised in that case. The Supreme Court here decided that these cases were not justiciable. The Wigg-Cochrane judgment, of course, was a reversal, in so far as it was capable of reversing that.