HC Deb 24 June 1861 vol 163 c1482
MR. MAGUIRE

said, he wished to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether it is true that a Protestant Orderly of the Hibernian Military School, Dublin, named James Harrisson, did not, when feeling himself to be in his last sickness, express a wish to see the Catholic Chaplain of that institution; whether the resident authorities of the School did not refuse to take any steps to ascertain if Harrisson really desired to see the Priest; and whether, in point of fact, notwithstanding the urgent entreaties of his wife, he was not left to die without any religious ministrations whatever, whether Protestant or Catholic; whether there is any objection to the production of the Correspondence between the Catholic Chaplain and the Lord Lieutenant or the Lord Lieutenant and the authorities of the School in reference to this case; and whether au investigation has been ordered by the Lord Lieutenant, with the view of ascertaining the real facts respecting it; and, if so whether there is any objection to state its nature and result?

MR. CARDWELL

said, that it had come to his knowledge that circumstances of some such kind as those to which the hon. Gentleman had referred had occurred, and that a correspondence on the subject was about to be laid before his noble Friend the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-