§ MR. T. W. RUSSELL (Tyrone, S.)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether he is aware of the hardships entailed upon jurors under the present system, by which men are summoned from various parts of their respective counties with no prisoners to try; and if he will consider whether some plan can be adopted to obviate occurrences of this kind?
§ MR. MADDENI fully appreciate the inconvenience experienced by jurors under the circumstances mentioned by my hon. Friend in his question, and I shall gladly consider any plan which may be suggested which would have the effect of preventing their occurrence. I may point out that the difficulty in deal- 1297 ing with the question is caused by the fact that cases may be sent for trial up to the last moment, while, in the interests of the jurors themselves, it is right that they should receive reasonable notice beforehand that their services will be required.