MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Dublin Artillery Militia now stationed on the Murrough, Wicklow, have a liquor bar; whether a licence is paid, and how much; whether liquor is sold to civilians on week days and Sundays indiscriminately, and whether the local police have any authority to make an inspection of the licensed premises, like ordinary public-houses?>
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI understand that the fact is as stated in the first paragraph, and that a fee of 18s. 9d. on the canteen licence has been paid in the usual way by the firm holding the contract. I have no information that liquor is sold to civilians indiscriminately. The police exercise every vigilance with a view to prevent illegal traffic, so far as it is possible for them to do so. Without the sanction of the local military authorities they have no power to enter the canteen.