HC Deb 16 November 1908 vol 196 cc864-5
MR. ASHLEY

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the Beresford Barracks at the Curragh are correctly described in the Army Medical Department Report for the year 1907, which has been presented to Parliament, as rapidly decaying and getting beyond repair, the rooms being draughty, cheerless, and very cold in winter.

MR. HALDANE

I have nothing to add to the reply which I have already given to the hon. Member on this subject. The Quartermaster-General does not consider that the barracks are in so bad a condition as suggested in the Question.

MR. ASHLEY

Then will the right hon. Gentleman have the Report of 1907 corrected?

CAPTAIN CRAIG (Down, E.)

Are these old Crimean huts—rotten old things?

MR. HALDANE

We are removing them as fast as we can.

CAPTAIN CRAIG

But are they still actually occupied?

MR. HALDANE

They have been very much changed since the Crimean War.

LORD BALCARRES (Lancashire, Chorley)

Would not places like this be declared by civil authorities to be unfit for human habitation?

[No Answer was returned.]