§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a police sergeant stationed at Booterstown, County Dublin., was on Saturday last declared to be insane by a local doctor, and was subsequently transferred to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum; and whether a portion of the cost of maintaining Sergeant Morrow will be levied on the counties which contribute to the maintenance of the Richmond Asylum.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The facts are as stated in the first part of the Question. If the ex-sergeant has become a pauper inmate of the asylum, the Treasury grant in aid of his maintenance at the rate of 4s. per week will be payable. Any excess payment incurred in respect of his maintenance will be contributed from local sources.