MR. MAC NEILLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that several mud hovels, from which tenants on the Olphert Estate, in Falcarragh, had been evicted, were occupied by Members of Royal Irish 1562 Constabulary, by whom the hon. Member for South Donegal was informed on the 20th of April that the hovels were temporary barracks: How many of the evicted tenants' huts were so occupied as temporary barracks; and what were the terms the of letting by Mr. Olphert of these cottages to the police, and who were the parties to the contract?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe Constabulary Authorities report that no mud hovels on the Olphert Estate, near Falcarragh, were, as is alleged in the question, occupied by the Royal Irish Constabulary as temporary barracks. Four good, substantial, evicted houses were taken as temporary barracks at a rent of 1s. per week. One of these houses was subsequently given up. The parties to the contract were Mr. Olphert and the District Inspector of the locality as representative of the constabulary.