§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the 284 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the doctor engaged by the agent of the Rossmore Estate to certify to the fitness of removal of the woman Finegan, on the occasion of the recent eviction proceedings near Newbliss, has an established practice in any town or district in the County Monaghan; did Dr. Henry make any report upon the ease to the Local Government Board; and upon whose authority did the police depart from their custom to make known to the coroner all deaths occurring under circumstances leading to the belief they were accelerated by eviction proceedings; and what is the name of the doctor who gave to Lord Rossmore's agent the certificate that the dying woman was fit to be removed.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI understand that the doctor who accompanied the agent on the occasion referred to informed the agent that the woman was fit to be removed. I am not aware that he gave a formal certificate to this effect, and in any case I cannot conceive that any medical man would state, or certify, that a woman whom he believed to be dying was fit for removal. The doctor alluded to was employed, presumably, by the agent; his services were not requisitioned by the police, nor is he subject in any way to the control of the Executive Government. This being so, and as the inquiry in the last paragraph appears intended not so much to elicit information as to injure the individual in question, I do not feel bound to answer it. Dr. Henry, the Dispensary medical officer, made no report upon the case to the Local Government Board, nor was it his duty to do so. The police had no reason to think that the woman's death was accelerated by the visit of the agent, and they did not, therefore, report the case to the coroner.
§ MR. MACALEESEHas this doctor any practice in Monaghan?
§ MP. G. W. BALFOURI really know nothing about him.
§ MR. MACALEESEWas he not an imported doctor, brought in for the purpose of giving this certificate?
No answer was given.