HC Deb 19 June 1907 vol 176 cc477-8
CAPTAIN CRAIG

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state how many persons are at present confined to gaol in Ireland for refusing to find securities to be of good behaviour.

MR. BIRRELL

One hundred and fourteen persons are at present confined in Irish prisons in default of finding sureties for their good behaviour. The Government have no information as to the number of these cases in which the default arose from deliberate refusal to find sureties as distinguished from inability to do so.

CAPTAIN CRAIG

How many of these cases are connected with agrarian disorder?

MR. BIRRELL

I must have notice of that.