§ MR. REDMONDasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If his attention has been called to certain complaints respecting 1694 the sanitary arrangements in Monaghan Prison; and, if he has made an investigation into the matter?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said that no complaint had been received, either by the Government or by the Prisons Board, as to the sanitary arrangements in Monaghan Prison, except that contained in the letter of the hon. Member. He had communicated with the Prisons Board, who stated that they believed the sanitary arrangements of the prison to be satisfactory. Until 1877 all those prisons were under the control of the Grand Juries of the respective counties, and supposed to be perfectly suitable for the detention of tried and untried prisoners and debtors. The amount of mortality in them had been singularly small.
§ MR. REDMONDinquired if the right hon. Gentleman had made inquiries into the specific complaints contained in the letter he had sent him?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said he had forwarded the letter with orders to have inquiries made.