§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether it would be possible to provide Mr. John Slattery, T.C., and Mr. Tom Barry, P.L.G., both being bail prisoners in the County Cork Gaol, with rooms at their request, in accordance with the Prison Rules, the prison in question being one in the first Class; and if it is true that Mr. Slattery is obliged to see his wife in the visiting room known as the "cage?"
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe General Prisons Board report that the prisoners mentioned are already provided with the accommodation set apart for prisoners of their class. They receive their visitors in the usual visiting room, which is heated, lighted, and furnished.
§ DR. TANNERDid not the right hon. Gentleman say last year that all bail prisoners would be treated as first-class misdemeanants? Will he not, therefore, take steps to obtain for them such privileges as I enjoyed myself when a prisoner in Clonmel Gaol?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI must ask the hon. Gentleman to give notice of the question.
§ DR. TANNERWill the right hon. Gentleman allow Mr. John Slattery to receive his wife in the same way that I was allowed to receive mine?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURSo far as my information goes I am not led to suppose that these prisoners are treated differently from other prisoners of the same class.
§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)What is called a separate apartment consists of a room divided by a grating.
§ DR. TANNERI beg to give notice that I will call attention to this matter on the first favourable opportunity.