§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, about the end of 1886, Bridget M'Ginley, tenant of a farm at Meenacladdy, County Donegal, let her dwelling-house to the police, under an agreement by which occupancy was to terminate on three months' notice in writing by either party; whether J. S. Milling, County Inspector of Constabulary, gave such notice in writing on the 15th of January last to Mrs. Bridget M'Ginley that ho would attend at the house on the 30th of April, at noon, to pay her the rent payable up to that day, and to quit and give up possession; whether Mrs. M'Ginley accordingly attended there on the day and at the hour appointed for the purpose stated, but, after waiting a considerable time, was told by District Inspector Hill to leave the place, and whether, when she refused to "leave her own house," retired to an inner room and closed the door, District Inspector Hill, Sergeant James Maher, Constable Stephen Duffy, and Constable Patrick Burke, first tried to break in the door by using a barrack form as a battering-ram, and then broke down a partition, dragged Mrs. M'Ginley into the kitchen, kicked her, and eventually threw her outside the door of the house in a fainting condition; whether Mrs. M'Ginley has since been ill, and attended by a doctor and priest: whether the police had removed their furniture and effects before the attack on Mrs. M'Ginley, and, after it, evacuated the house; whether the rent due to Mrs. M'Ginley, and which the County Inspector, by his notice, promised to pay on the day in question, is still unpaid; and what the Irish Executive have done with reference to the case?
§ *MR. MADDENThe Constabulary Authorities report that the facts are as stated in the first paragraph;; but that Mrs. M'Ginley's interest having been evicted in October, 1889, a copy of the notice of surrender served by them on the landlord's agent was merely sent to her as a matter of precaution in the event of her setting up any claim to the premises. Mrs. Ginley did refuse to leave the premises, and was removed by the police without using any unnecessary 697 force. She was neither kicked nor thrown out, as alleged in the question. The police have no evidence as to the alleged illness of the woman. The police had removed their furniture. The rent was paid to the landlord's agent, and the premises were also legally handed over to him.