§ MR. HEALYasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether it is the fact that Mr. Patrick M'Dowell, of Feakle, county Clare, arrested on the 22nd October, is still detained in Clonmel Gaol, while Mr. Michael Hogan, arrested two days previously, on the same charge and from the same place, was released four months ago; and, whether the district is now peaceable, 225 and if the case of Mr. M'Dowell can be considered?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)Sir, in reply to this and the several other Questions of hon. Members in reference to persons at present in detention under the Protection Act, I am authorized by His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to say that he will proceed to Ireland at once, and that it is his intention, at the earliest opportunity, to consider all the cases of persons now detained under that Act.