§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland what were the numbers of the Dublin Metropolitan Police in 1890 and in 1893, and the expenditure in both these years for the maintenance of this force, and from what sources and under what statutory provisions is the money obtained.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The number of police in 1890–1 was 1,220 and the total expenditure was £143,469. In 1893–4 the number was 1,221, and the total expenditure £144,458. The expenditure was defrayed partly from voted moneys and partly from local sources. Receipts from the latter sources were derivable from police tax, pawnbrokers' duty, carriage revenue, fines and fees, police and incidental revenue under the various Acts of Parliament instituting them.