HC Deb 18 July 1890 vol 347 c215
MR. W. CORBET (Wicklow, E.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the fact that the special jurors from the baronies of Shillilagh, North and South, and Ballinacor, were served with summonses to aatend the Wicklow Summer Assizes, at the Court House, Wicklow, on the 19th of July, at 10 o'clock in the morning; whether he is aware that the hour named renders it impossible for them to reach Wicklow by the first train from Tinahely, and obliges them to drive from 30 to 40 miles to be in time for the opening of the Court; and whether, under the circumstances, he will suggest that the hour of meeting be postponed, in order that the jurors may be enabled to travel by train?

MR. MADDEN

The Executive Government have no control over the arrangements in regard to the attendances of jurors at Assizes. I am, therefore, unable to adopt the suggestions contained in the concluding paragraph of the question.