The dominating constitutional change will, of course, be the establishment of a Parliament which, operating through a Ministry responsible to it, will control and direct the various departments engaged in the transaction of public business. It is unnecessary to consider here how that Parliament will be recruited, though I may express my conviction that justice to minorities, the mitigation of political mistrust, and the promotion of efficiency in the Public Services, urgently require the recruitment to be on the system of proportional representation. But I assume that when recruited, the Parliament’s general procedure will be fashioned on the model of the Imperial Parliament at Westminster. To that end the first thing the new Parliament will have to do is to create its own establishment of officers and clerks, to frame its Standing Orders relating to the conduct of public business, and to settle any subsidiary rules that the Westminster precedents may suggest. Having thus provided itself with the requisite machinery for the exercise of its powers, the Irish Parliament would naturally next proceed to bring under its supervision the various existing agencies for the direction and control of the public business of the country. At present the business of Civil Government in Ireland is carried on through the following forty-seven Departments, Boards, and Offices, which I group with reference to the degree of control exercised over them by the Irish Government at the present time. DEPARTMENTS, ETC., UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT. (1) Royal Irish Constabulary. (2) Dublin Metropolitan Police. (3) Prisons Board. (4) Reformatory and Industrial School Office. (5) Inspectors of Lunatics. (6) General Registry of Vital Statistics. (7) Registry of Petty Sessions Clerks. (8) Resident Magistrates.(64) (9) Crown Solicitors. (10) Clerks of Crown and Peace. (11) Office of Arms (Ulster King of Arms). DEPARTMENTS, ETC., UNDER THE PARTIAL CONTROL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT. (1) Land Commission. (2) Commissioners of charitable donations and bequests. (3) Public Record Office. DEPARTMENTS, ETC., NOT UNDER CONTROL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT, BUT HAVING THE CHIEF SECRETARY AS EX OFFICIO PRESIDENT. (1) Local Government Board. (2) Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction. DEPARTMENTS, ETC., NOT UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT EXCEPT AS REGARDS APPOINTMENTS AND, IN SOME INSTANCES, THE FRAMING OF RULES OF BUSINESS. (1) Board of National Education. (2) Board of Intermediate Education. (3) Commissioners of Education. (Endowed Schools). (4) National Gallery. (5) Royal Hibernian Academy. (6) Congested Districts Board. BOARDS EXERCISING STATUTORY POWERS IN IRELAND BUT NOT UNDER CONTROL OF THE IRISH GOVERNMENT.