§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If police notices issued by the Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police have been posted within the last few days on the pedestal of the Grattan statue in College Green, Dublin; and, if the Commissioner has any legal right to cause the public monuments of the city to be so defaced?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANA police notice for the regulation of traffic was posted on the pedestal of the Grattan Statue, but not by the police or any of their agents. When the police saw it, they had it removed.
§ MR. SEXTONWho posted the notices?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThat I do not know.
§ MR. HEALYIs it a fact that public attention had been called in this House previously to the defacement of public monuments in Ireland by the police?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANWhat I understand happened in this case was that a number of these notices were issued to persons supposed to have been affected by them, and they may have posted them on the statue.
§ MR. SEXTONIs it usual for the Police Commissioner, having to issue notices to people, to get them posted for him?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANNo, Sir.