Mr.O'KEEFFE (Limerick City)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland if it be true that District Inspector O'Reilly, Abbeyfeale, County Limerick, lately visited houses of several evicted tenants at Glensharrold, and advised them to settle their rents with their landlord; whether the same police officer also visited the residences of the publicans in the district, and intimated to them that police and other emergency men would be billeted on them during coming 131 evictions; and whether such billeting is legal under any Military or Police Regulation Act in force in Ireland?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN,) University of DublinThe Constabulary authorities report that it is the case that the District Inspector visited some of the houses on the estate referred to. He in no way advised the tenants to settle. The object of the visits was to ascertain the accommodation available for the police to be placed there for the protection of caretakers upon the evictions being carried out. He did not visit the publicans, as alleged in the second paragraph.