§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the police at Portarlington have been acting as caretakers and gamekeepers for the local gentry, and that Constable Guinlivan has stock grazing on the lands of a local magistrate and also engages in poaching practices; and whether he will say, as 343 there are two police barracks and twelve constables in Portarlington, having a population of a little over 2,000, he proposes to reduce the force in that town.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) There is no foundation whatever for the statements in the first part of the Question. The police district of Portarlington comprises a large extent of country, and it is not intended at present to reduce the force there.