§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether it is part of the duties of the prison warders attached to Maryborough Convict Prison to drive the prison horses and carts and deliver vegetables and farm produce in the town and district; whether he is aware that on last pig fair day in Maryborough two warders were sent out in full uniform driving a number of pigs before them; and whether, in view of the effect of the imposition of such duties upon the standard of men who join the Irish prison service, he will take 563 steps to insure that such duties shall not in future be imposed on prison warders.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) It is the duty of the warder who is detailed to take charge of the prison transport car to deliver farm produce grown in the prison grounds, and to convey goods to and from the railway station. Two warders in uniform assisted the storekeeper on a recent occasion in the manner stated in the second part of the Question, but this was done without the authority of the prison governor, and will not occur again.