§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that ex-convict Patrick Morrisey, discharged from Maryborough 317 Prison on the 17th July, 1903, and sent on the same date to the Mountmellick Workhouse, is at present a patient in the Maryborough District Lunatic Asylum, chargeable to the local rates; and whether he will state what steps the Government is going to take to relieve the ratepayers of the King's and Queen's Counties of the burthen of Morrisey's maintenance.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe facts are as stated. There is no power to transfer this man to the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum or to the asylum of the district of which he is a native. Legislation would be necessary to remedy the grievance of which the hon. Member complains, and I cannot give any undertaking in this direction. The usual capitation grant will, of course, be paid in respect of the maintenance of Morrisey in Maryborough Asylum.