§ MR. JAMES DALY (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state to the House the annual cost, if maintaining, the police hut at Dromod, County Monaghan; whether the total cost of maintaining this police hut is charged to Ireland; whether he is aware when any person was sent for trial to either Quarter Sessions or Assizes from the police district, of Dromod; that the Judge of Assizes at, Monaghan this month was presented with white, dives rowing to there being no criminal cases; and that the County Court Judge, in whose district the Dromod hut is situate has been several times during recent years presented with white gloves on account of its stainless character; and whether he will consider the advisability of removing the police hut, in question?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe annual cost of maintaining this hut, is about £287, the entire of which is defrayed out, of the Constabulary Vote. No person has been sent for trial from the sub-district attached to the hut since its establishment in 1894. The hut was originally he special protection of an individual, but since 1896, when it was removed to its present site, it has been maintained for the purpose of preventing crime and for the preservation of the public he surrounding district There is no intention to remove this hut station.