§ EARL BEAUCHAMPasked the Under Secretary of State for War, whom he saw in his place, Whether he could give the House any information with respect to any knowledge which Her Majesty's Government might possess in reference to the condition of the barracks in Dublin other than the Royal Barracks; and whether any other Reports besides the Reports referred to the other day had been made with regard to those barracks?
THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE (Lord HARRIS), in reply, said, that he was not aware of any other Reports having been made upon the barracks in Dublin other than the Royal Barracks, besides the Report which was made in 1883, and also the Report which was made by his noble Friend his Predecessor in the War Office in 1886. In consequence of those Reports certain alterations had been carried out in the other barracks in Dublin. In the Pigeon House Fort Barracks, of which a report was made in 1886, a hut was built capable of accommodating 40 men. In the Ship Street Barracks £1,000 had been taken in the Estimates last year, and had been spent in improving the officers' quarters, and £500 had been taken in the Estimates this year as his noble Friend had reported bad drainage there. In Beggar's Bush Barracks no complaint had been received as to the drainage. In Island Bridge Barracks £5,000 had been taken in the Estimates last year for improving the officers' quarters, and £6,000 had been taken in the Estimates for this year to carry out certain alterations, the drainage having been made good in 1887. In the Richmond Barracks £1,000 had been taken in the Estimates for drainage last year, and £1,000 for improving the sergeants' quarters, and £1,000 had been taken in the Estimates for drainage this year, as well as £1,000 for the sergeants' quarters; £1,200 had been taken for improvements in the Royal Artillery Barracks, Phœnix Park. The general condition of Portobello Barracks was considered satisfactory.