§ 20. Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland the age and number of 1225 years' service of each of the following district inspectors of the Royal Irish Constabulary: Messrs. Peter Leonard, Loughrea; Patrick Culhone, Armagh; Hugh Shier, Ballina; Patrick M'Hugh, Derry; James M'Mahon, Lisnaskea; Joseph Smyth, Rathoe; T. O'Neill, Gorey; and Thomas Keaveney, Belfast; is the statutory period of service of a district inspector forty years; and why have these officers not been retired in accordance with the Act of Parliament?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Constabulary (Ireland) Amendment Act, 1882, provides that a district inspector of the Royal Irish Constabulary shall be retired when he attains the age of sixty and has become qualified to receive the maximum pension of the rank and class in which he is serving. Only one of the officers mentioned has attained the age of sixty, and under the terms of the Statute the retirement of none of them is obligatory at present.