§ MR. HUGH LAWI beg to ask the Chief, Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in view of the fact that the Maryborough Convict Prison has recently been enlarged and reconstructed at a cost of about £2,600, he will say if the Treasury refused to 627 provide the necessary funds to enable official residences to be constructed for the families of prison officers outside the prison walls.
MR. BRYCEThe answer is in the negative. The sum of about £5,000 has, with the approval of the Treasury, recently been expended in erecting warders' cottages outside the prison walls at Maryborough. It is, however, necessary for the governor and deputy-governor to reside within the prison precincts, as I stated in reply to the previous Question. I may observe that the estimated cost of the reconstruction of Maryborough Convict Prison is about £27,000, not £2,600.