§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state on what area will fall the cost of the extra police drafted into Warren-point, Rostrevor, and Newry on the occasion of the recent proposed Orange demonstration at Newry; and whether, in view of the fact that the demonstrators wore imported from the county Armagh and from remote parts of County Down, he will see that the cost is distributed over those two counties.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe area of charge may be either the Local Government Districts of the places mentioned, or the 514 entire County Down, in which they are all situated. The matter is at present under consideration. There is no legal power to recover any portion of the cost from the County Armagh, none of the extra force having been employed there.
§ MR. DILLONSeeing that this was an invasion of the County of Armagh, would it not be more equitable to place the cost of the extra police on the districts from which the excursionists came?
§ MR. WYNDHAMThere is no legal power to do that.
§ MR. DILLONBut there is a discretionary power to place it on the Central Constabulary Fund and not on the County of Armagh.