§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, seeing that the Royal Irish Constabulary barracks in Great Victoria Street, Belfast, were taken over by the Great Northern Railway Company in February, 1903, and that the place now used for barracks is three private houses in bad repair and insanitary and without the necessary accommodation, if he can state how long it is proposed to retain these premises in their present condition, and when new barracks will be built.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) It is not correct to say that the barracks are insanitary and in bad repair. The question of accommodation for the police is under consideration, and until a permanent barrack is secured the premises in question, or other temporary accommodation, must be retained.