§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is a fact that oakum was placed in Father Kennedy's cell in Cork Gaol for him to pick on Monday and Tuesday last, and that he was sentenced to bread and water punishment for refusal to pick it?
THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN)(who replied) (Dublin University)said: The General Prisons Board report that, in accordance with the invariable practice, a supply of oakum was placed in the cell on the days named; but that it is not the case that there was any sentence to bread and water punishment inflicted for refusing to pick it.
§ THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN (Mr. SEXTON) (Belfast, W.)I wish to ask, whether the exception made by the Chief Secretary in the case of priests applies only to wearing the prison garb, and not to any of the Prison Rules?
§ MR. MADDENI must ask for Notice of that Question.