§ MR. MANDEVILLEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is he aware that, in reference to the contemplated abolition of certain police barracks in the County Tipperary, the ratepayers, who pay for them, are of opinion the least useful police barracks are those that should be abolished; and that great discontent exists there because Ballydavid Police Barrack has not been abolished instead of Kilmoyler Police Barrack; has he seen on the Ordnance Map of that county the relative positions of both places; will he inquire further into the reasons why Kilmoyler Barrack was selected for abolition, instead of the less useful one at Ballydavid; and will he see that the ratepayers' views of this important matter are represented to the Constabulary Authorities in Dublin Castle?
MR. J. MORLEYThe breaking up of one or more police stations in the county became necessary in consequence of a recent reduction in the police establishment of the county. It became a question whether the station at Ballydavid or Kilmoyler should be broken up, 1233 and the Divisional Commissioner and local officers agreed that Kilmoyler station was the least useful of the two and could better be dispensed with. Certain of the ratepayers of the locality, who objected to the abolition of Kilmoyler, did lay their views before the Constabulary Authorities, and their representations were carefully considered before the surrender of the barrack was recommended. All the correspondence in the matter was before Govenment, who expressed concurrence in the recommendation of the Local Authorities.