§ MR. W. J. CORBET (Wicklow, E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, How many special inquiries into charges made against the Resident Medical Officer of the Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum have been held within the last five years; and, whether there is any objection to lay the several Reports relating to such inquiries upon the Table of the House?
§ THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)(who replied) said: No special inquiries of the nature indicated have been held. There was a Departmental Inquiry held by order of the Government towards the close of 1881, and in the beginning of 1882, into a number of matters connected with the administration of the asylum, as to which the hon. Member was informed in reply to a Question put by him to the then Chief Secretary, on May 3, 1883. In 1885 there was an inquiry on the general operation of this asylum, and as to the advisability of structural additions and re-arrangement of buildings. As the hon. Member has been already informed, in reply to his former Question on this subject above referred to, Reports of this nature are regarded as confidential, and the Government cannot undertake to lay them upon the Table of the House.