§ MR. DUFFYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland how many police huts are erected on the agricultural farm near Athenry; how many police are quartered there; and can he state the probable cost of the extra police in the district.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) One single and two double huts have been erected, or are in course of erection near Athenry. The huts will accommodate seventeen 325 men, of whom ten are already quartered in them. The extra police force in the Athenry district consists of one head constable and forty-seven sergeants and constables. The local charge for these men will fall on the county at large at a fixed rate, namely, £43 6s per annum for the head constable, and £34 9s 3d per annum for each sergeant and constable. The necessity for erecting the huts was due to the exorbitant rents asked for barrack accommodation in the locality and to other police reasons.