§ MR. GINNELL (Westmeath, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the average aggregate number of prisoners detained in all Irish prisons during each of the last three years.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The average total number of prisoners confined in all Irish prisons, convict and local, during the last three years, was as follows:—In 1903, 2,557; 1904, 2,574; 1905, 2,605.