§ MR. CALLAN (for Mr. BIGGAR)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is in contemplation to remove the Constabulary barracks of Ballymoney from its present position; whether it is proposed to create new barracks on the outside of the town, and in a street in which there is not one public house, and only one shop of any kind; whether it is true that the Town Commissioners of Ballymoney forwarded a memorial to His Excellency, urging the transfer of the barracks to a more central site; and, if so, if he has any reason to suppose that said memorial does not express the feeling of the inhabitants; and, if His Excellency could direct that Dervock should be the head quarters of the district, and thus save the ratepayers the expense of maintaining barracks in Ballymoney?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERSir, the site of the new barracks is only 30 yards distant from the present barracks. The reply sent to the memorial was that the Lord Lieutenant was satisfied that the intended change was for the best. The expense of the barracks does not fall upon the ratepayers; it falls upon the taxpayers; and, therefore, the opinion of the Board of Works and of the Treasury must be considered.