MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will inquire whether Section 2 of the R. I. C. Barrack Regulations might be relaxed in peaceable districts?
MR. J. MORLEYThe section referred to requires the head constable or sergeant in charge of a station to make an immediate report of any man who absents himself from duty without permission, or from barracks, or from his lodgings at night. The Inspector General is of opinion that the Order is a very necessary one, and could not with advantage be relaxed.
MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland what is the present intention of the Government respecting the R. I. C. Force Fund?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Fund will continue to exist until all its obligations to the families of present members of the Fund (whether serving on pay or on pension) shall be fulfilled, and to that end the Fund and its actuarial concerns have been placed under the management of the National Debt Commissioners.