§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether he can state what is the average Dumber of men in the Royal Irish Constabulary in charge of a county and district inspector respectively; and will he say whether the two officers by which the force has been reduced since August, 1903, were county or district inspectors.
(Answered by Mr. Atkinson.) The average number of men in charge of a county inspector (including the force in Belfast) is 261. The average number of men in charge of a district inspector is forty-eight. The two officers by which the force has been reduced since August, 1903, were district inspectors.