§ MR. MCKEAN (Monaghan, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, having regard to the entire absence of crime in the district, as also to the fact that the alleged reasons for its erection have long since ceased to exist, he will suggest to the Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary the advisability of having the police hut removed from Dromod, near Ballybay in the county of Monaghan.
§ THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. CHERRY, Liverpool Exchange)The police hub in question was originally provided upwards of twenty years ago as a protection post, but for the past ten years it has been used as a permanent police station with a district attached, and the police employed there perform all the ordinary duties appertaining to a police station. 651 The locality is peaceable, hut the two nearest police stations are each five miles distant, and the Inspector-General thinks it necessary that the station should be retained for ordinary police purposes.
§ MR. MCKEANAnd is it an example of retrenchment to keep on a hut which the Inspector-General says is not necessary?
§ MR. CHERRYOn the contrary, he says it is required as an ordinary police station and that is the reason why it is retained.