§ MR. KENNYasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he has had his attention directed to an application for compensation for injuries, under the Crimes Prevention (Ireland) Act, made by one Patrick Kinnane and investigated at Ennis on Wednesday, August 1st, 1883; if it is a fact that Kinnane has claimed 11,000 under the Act; if it is a fact that he has been employed as an overseer by the Waterford and Limerick Railway Company, and sustained the injuries in question while in discharge of his duty in connection with attending to repairs on the Railway line; if he is aware that certain threatening letters alleged to have been sent him threatened a strike of the hands 2082 employed under him, unless he resigned his post; if it is a fact that Kinnane's counsel admitted that the outrage was in no way agrarian, but the result of trade differences amongst the Railway servants; if he can state the section of the Crimes Act which provides for the award of compensation to persons injured in such trade disputes and for the holding of special courts of investigation into such occurrences; and, if the Crimes Act contains no such provision why such a claim as that of Kinnane's has been entertained?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, a claim was made by Patrick Kinnane as stated, and has been investigated; but the Lord Lieutenant has not as yet received the investigator's Report, or come to any conclusion on the subject. When the Report is received, all the facts and circumstances of the case will, of course, be most carefully considered by His Excellency. Pending such consideration, I cannot give any further answer to this Question, beyond reminding the hon. Member opposite (Mr. Kenny) that Section 19 of the Act enables a person injured to apply for compensation not merely in agrarian cases, but also, in express terms, in cases arising out of any unlawful association.