MR. O'KEEFFE (Limerick City)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the number of persons who have been prosecuted under the Criminal Law and Procedure Act in Ireland from 1st July, 1889, to present day, with their names and sentences?
§ MR. MADDENFull Returns as to persons proceeded against under the 216 statute quoted have been already laid upon the Table. The last continuation one (Parliamentary Paper No. 128 of this Session) deals with the period from November 30, 1888, to March 31, 1890. To compile a Return for the period mentioned in the question would take several days. The following' information may, however, be of use to the hon. Member:—For the period July 1, 1889, to July 1, 1890, the proceedings under the statute mentioned were as follows:—Total number of cases (not persons) prosecuted, 262; total number of convictions, 211; total number of dismissals, 51.