§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (Cork)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland whether it is the practice of the Irish Government to give police protection to landlords who, instead of resorting to the ordinary legal processes, attempt to collect their rents by making distresses with their own bailiffs?
§ *MR. MADDENIt is not the practice to give police protection in the circumstances mentioned in the question. Several applications for such protection have been refused.
§ MR. M. HEALYIf a landlord levies a distress on a tenant, and intimates to the Executive that he wants police projection, is such protection given?
§ *MR. MADDENNo, Sir.
§ MR. M. HEALYIs it not the fact that whenever a landlord makes a distress there is a policeman on the spot to see it carried out?
§ *MR. MADDENNo, Sir.