HC Deb 13 June 1887 vol 315 cc1729-31
MR. O'HANLON (Cavan, E.)

had the two subjoined Questions on the Paper:—

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is a fact that the police barracks lately opened in Magheroarty, in the County of Donegal, have been rented under an agreement terminable at three months' notice, at a rent of £15 per year, from a woman named Tennant, whose husband is now in America; whether the six constables pay above that sum by money deducted out of their wages for rant; whether the Government in other cases pay a portion of the rents; whether the Government now insist on a sum of £40 being expended in repairs by Mrs. Tennant; and, whether the Government will put the house in proper repair at its own expense, making it suitable for a barracks?

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether it is correct, as reported in The Anglo-Celt, a Cavan paper, that Shercock Petty Sessions was hold on the 12th instant; whether Thomas Chambers, Esq., J.P., was Chairman on the occasion; Ben. S. Adams, Esq., J.P., was also present; whether five men were tried for drunkenness, three of them Catholics, and two Protestants; and, whether the Catholics were fined 10s. each, while the Protestants were fined only 2s. 6d. each?

MR. O'HANLON

I wish to postpone these two Questions until they can be answered by the Chief Secretary.

THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)

I can answer the Questions.

MR. O'HANLON

I wish to reserve thorn for some future occasion.

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order! It is quite competent for the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to answer the Questions on the Paper.

MR. O'HANLON

I propose to ask them——

MR. SPEAKER

Order, order!

COLONEL KING-HARMAN

With regard to the first Question, the Constabulary Authorities report that this question must relate to Meenacladdy Barracks. It is held at an annual rent of £ 15 under the usual yearly agreement, terminable by three months' notice, from a Mrs. M'Ginley, whose husband resides in America. There are, at present, six men in the barracks, from whom a sum at the rate of £2 12s. each per annum is stopped, under Statute, on account of deductions for lodging allowance. The Government are not aware of any proposal with regard to an expenditure of £40 on repairs. With regard to the other Question, I have to reply that the Shercock Petty Sessions was held on the 12th May. The magistrates named were present. Ten persons were fined for drunkenness, eight of whom were Roman Catholics and two Protestants. Two of the Roman Catholics, who were disorderly, were fined 10s. each. One of the Protestants was fined 1s. 6d., it being his first offence, and the other Protestant, who did not appear, was fined 2s. 6d. The remainder of the Ro- man Catholics were fined the same as the Protestants.

MR. O'HANLON

Having got new matter, in addition to the fact that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman did not answer the Questions fully. I shall repeat them next day.