§ MR. PINKERTON (Galway)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is the intention of the Government to proceed with the erection of a Convict Depôt at Taylor's Hill, Galway; why no action was taken 991 on the Report of the Vice Regal Commission appointed by Lord Carnarvon, approving of the establishment of a Convict Depôt there, the convicts to be employed at works recommended by said Commission for the improvement of Gal-way Harbour; and, if he could explain the reason of the delay in the erection of the Constabulary Barracks?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.), in reply, said, that the Irish Government had by no means abandoned the intention to establish a convict labour prison at Galway. If the hon. Member would look at the Estimates for the Prison Service for the current year, he would find that an item of £10,000 odd was taken for the purpose of the gaol in question. The matter was one in which he took a great personal interest, and he should give his best attention to the subject. He knew nothing of the Constabulary Barracks to which the hon. Member referred; but if he would say where they were situated he would make inquiry.