§ MR. LALOR (for Mr. ARTHUR O'CONNOR)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether twenty men of the Kilkenny Constabulary Forces were employed from the 5th to the 23rd September last in "protecting" Emergency men on the property of Mr. Boyd, of Tinwere, Durrow, Queen's County, with extra pay at 3s. 6d. a-day; whether they were relieved by an equal number of the Queen's County Constabulary, drafted from different points of the county, who did the same duty, and were placed in the same circumstances as the Kilkenny men; whether it is true that a large number of the Kilkenny Constabulary were employed at Mr. Keating's residence at Woodgift, in county Kilkenny, for some three months, also receiving the 3s. 6d. a-day extra pay; whether application was made, in proper form, for the allowance by the Queen's County constables employed as stated; and, whether any, and, if so, what, answer was made to it; and, upon what ground the allowance is granted to one body and withheld from the other?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER,in reply, said, that the men alluded to in the first instance received 2s. 6d. a-day extra pay while on duty at Durrow. They were replaced by men of the Queen's County, which was the place in which they were stationed. The station was reduced to 11 men, and they were lodged in the police barrack. The County Inspector did not think there was any necessity for extra pay for these men. The men employed at Woodgift received 3s. 6d. per day extra pay; but they were lodged in an outhouse, and in the opinion of 984 the officers were entitled to this extra pay.