HC Deb 25 August 1881 vol 265 c883
MR. T. P. O'CONNOR

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether he has received any communication with reference to the removal of the convict station from Spike Island, in Cork Harbour, and the suggested transfer of the prisoners to England?

SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT

, in reply, said, that no such communication had come before him recently; but he would inquire into the matter.