§ MR. CLAUDE HAYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will take steps to ensure that the Report of the General Prisons Board (Ireland) shall be presented to Parliament and published sooner than nine months after the period covered by the Report.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Annual Reports of the General Prisons Board are for the year ending March 31st. Certain of the statistics contained in the Reports are for the preceding calendar year, but the financial tables relate to the year ending March 31st. The Report for 1904–5 was presented four months after that date The Board inform me that the Report cannot sooner be prepared having regard to the complicated statistics to be compiled.
§ MR. CLAUDE HAYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will say why six prisoners, described in the Report of the General Prisons Board (Ireland) as sane, were transferred from Irish local prisons to Irish lunatic asylums.
154 (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The hon. Member appears to refer to a paragraph on page 11 of the Report of the General Prisons Board (Ireland) for the year ending March 31st, 1905. The six persons referred to are not described as having been sane simply, but as having been sane on committal. They became insane while in prison, and were thereupon transferred to lunatic asylums.