§ MR. MACNEILLI beg to ask the Solicitor General for Ireland whether it is the fact that in Derry Gaol there is no covered exercise yard for the prisoners; whether, in consequence, the prisoners are deprived of their exercise and confined to their cells in wet weather; whether, as this defect could easily be remedied and the health of the prisoners preserved by erecting a slight shed or penthouse roof projecting from the walls surrounding the various exercise yards, he will take the matter into his early consideration; and, whether in the other gaols in Ireland there is a similar want of covered exercising ground for use in wet weather?
§ MR. MADDENThe General Prisons Board report that there is no covered exercise yard. The Board have never had any complaint brought to their knowledge indicating the necessity of erecting a shed. I believe that in other prisons in Ireland there is no covered exercise yard.