§ MR. DELANYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the circumstances under which Chief Warder Walsh, of Maryborough Gaol, was recently transferred to Cork, and whether that officer has been reduced in rank or salary; and whether, seeing that the alleged irregularities for which he has been held responsible have been in existence for over three years, and before this officer came to Maryborough, will he state whether the alleged irregularities were known to the Prisons Board or their inspectors; and, if not, what explanation have they to offer for their failure to detect them.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe chief warder was not reduced in rank or salary on his transfer to Cork Local Prison. He was unequal to the physical strain at Maryborough Convict Prison, and on his own 801 application he was retired, on pension, on grounds of health.