§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether there is a police station in the extensive and populous district lying between Old Park Road and Crumlin Road, Belfast, where Catholics have been frequently of late insulted and assaulted on their way to and from their daily labour; and, if there is no station in this district, whether one will be established there; and whether, whilst numerous constables are placed on the Falls Road, where need for their service scarcely ever arises, the Shankill Old Lodge Road, Old Park Road, and the district lying between Greenmount Road and Limestone Road, are left without the necessary police protection?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)The Inspector General has reported that there is a police station in the vicinity of the Crumlin Road. Very few complaints have been made of Roman Catholics having been insulted in the locality; but in the cases which have occurred, the offending persons were made amenable, and were punished. With regard to the district referred to in the second paragraph, the Inspector General reports that two new barracks have recently been erected, and that a third is being got ready as quickly as possible. It is believed that ample protection will be thus afforded.