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John Morley: Of all or any of these schemes I will now only say that, of course, they constitute an entirely new point of departure…

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Of all or any of these schemes I will now only say that, of course, they constitute an entirely new point of departure and raise questions of an order totally different to any that are involved in a central board appointed for local purposes.
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John Morley

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Morley emphasizes that new governance proposals for Ireland raise fundamentally different questions.

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