§ COLONEL KING-HARMANasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mr. Field, of Dublin, who was awarded compensation for personal injury, by order of the Lord Lieutenant, has received a any portion of the sum thus awarded to him; why it is that nothing has been paid to Henry Byrne of Coolbanagher, and Constable Daniel Council, both of the Queen's County, who were awarded compensation for personal injury on the 20th October 1882, and 29th September 1883 respectively; whether he will give a return of the parties, stating names, amounts of compensation, and dates of grants, of persons in Ireland to whom awards for compensation for personal injury has been made, and who have not yet received the sums due to them; and, whether he will take stops to ensure that no further delay shall take place in securing that persons to whom compensation is due for injuries inflicted upon themselves, or whose claims for compensation for the loss of relatives has been allowed by the Lord Lieutenant, shall receive the sums due to them, according to the spirit, as well as the letter of the Law?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, Mr. Field has been paid £600 out of the £3,000 awarded to him, and the further collection is in progress. His case was the only one in the Metropolis, and the machinery employed for collection is exceptional. In the other 123 cases throughout Ireland the collection is made by the Constabulary, and every effort is made to press it on. Many of the warrants are for very small sums, and the general intention has been to 1016 press on the full execution of the warrant before paying over any sums that may be collected; but if any of the persons interested are unwilling to wait and will make application to Government there will be no objection to advance a portion of the collection to them. Returns pursuant to the Act are already from time to time presented to Parliament showing the awards and the sums collected and paid.