HC Deb 22 March 1889 vol 334 cc534-5
MR. O'KEEFFE

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on whose recommendation and upon what qualification Mr. Francis MacGillicuddy Eager, ex-governor of the County Limerick Gaol, had recently been appointed a Magistrate of the County of Clare?

MR. BALFOUR

Mr. Eager is a resident in the Kilkee district of the County Clare, and has been appointed to the Commission of the Peace, being recommended by the Lieutenant of the County as a fit and proper person to be a Magistrate.

MR. T. M. HEALY

May I ask is the Lord Chancellor aware that there were constant debates in the House during Mr. Forster's time regarding the conduct of the Governor of Limerick Gaol, and it was shown that he had been guilty of cruelty towards the prisoners there? This man is now made a Magistrate.

MR. A. J. BALFOUR

I am afraid I cannot answer that question.