§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether John Joseph Regan, an inmate of the Central Asylum, Dundrum, has been detained in that institution for a period of 434 two years; whether competent medical men have certified that he is not insane; and whether, as he undertakes to leave the country if discharged, his liberation will be favourably considered?
§ MR. ATKINSONThe facts are correctly stated in the first and second paragraphs. The case of this man, as the honourable Member is doubtless aware, is not free from difficulty. It will come up for review early next month, when all the facts of the case will be duly considered. The power to discharge from the asylum rests with the Lord Lieutenant, and there is no authority to grant a conditional release in Ireland.