§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that the civil action of Mr. Barry, Poor Law Guardian, against District Inspector Ball, Royal Irish Constabulary, Fermoy, is fixed for Thursday next; and, in view of the fact that Mr. Barry is at present in Cork Prison as a bail prisoner, whether he can state if there are any means open to the Prisons Board by which they can have Mr. Barry produced at the Court on Thursday, or any later day on which the action may be taken?
§ MR. MADDENMy attention was called to this matter through the previous question on the subject put by the hon. Member. As I then stated, while the General Prisons Board have no power to produce the bail prisoner in Court, there would not be the least difficulty in his obtaining a writ of habeas corpus, which would enable him to attend at the hearing of the case.