§ MR. FOLEYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether pressure has been put on the Executive to establish a police station at Moyrus, Connemara, by persons who have founded a mission there; whether he is aware that an individual belonging to the same mission was pre- 1323 viously caught by the police in the act of firing into his own house, to secure the establishment of the barracks now pressed for; and whether he will make full inquiry into the matter before consenting to the establishment of a police station?
MR. J. MOKLEYIt is true that application has been made to the Irish Government for the establishment of a Police Station at Moyrus, and that so recently as the 24th November I stated, in reply to a question addressed to me by the hon. Member for South Tyrone, that the matter was receiving the attention of the local responsible authorities. I would refer the hon. Gentleman to the terms of that answer, and to the reply which I previously gave on the 25th August to a somewhat similar question on the same subject. The Police report that there are no grounds for the allegation in the second paragraph of the question. I may add that there has been no repetition of the occurrences which took place in this locality in July and August last, and that there are signs of an abatement in feeling as I anticipated.