§ DR. TANNER(for Mr. CHANCE,) Kilkenny, S.I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland why six or eight extra police have been quartered on the district of Kilmoganny (Callan), County Kilkenny; will the people be called on to pay for them, and what outrages have been committed to justify this burden?
§ MR. JACKSONThe Constabulary Authorities report that it is the case that there has been a temporary increase of six in the number of police at Kilmoganny station. The increase has been provided from the force already in the county, and there will, therefore, be no increased charge on the local rates. This temporary strengthening of the local force has been rendered necessary to prevent the intimidation of a man who was occupying evicted farms.
§ DR. TANNERIS it not the case that the man referred to has himself applied to have the extra police withdrawn? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has signed an affidavit, witnessed by the local Protestant clergyman and others, stating that his mind was seriously affected when he made the application, and that he is still subject to fits of mental aberration?
§ MR. JACKSONIf that is so, it is the more necessary that he should have protection.
§ DR. TANNERBut will not the right hon. Gentleman rather have the man taken care of in a lunatic asylum than excite the hostility of the people by inflicting more police upon the locality?