Colonel NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary whether he will ascertain if, as a result of obtaining a decree for malicious damage to the amount of £17,000, and of obtaining a further decree in the High Court to allow him to set his rates against this amount, Lord Ashtown had his property at Glenahiry and other places in County Wexford further damaged and compensation awarded to the amount of £6,000; whether further damage has been done him since the truce for the like reason, and his solicitor threatened by the Republican party and his clients forced to leave him; and will he ascertain if the facts are as stated, and convey a remonstrance to the competent Republican authority of this breach of the truce?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODThe total amount of compensation awarded to Lord656W Ashtown for malicious damage to his property is approximately £24,000. The last award was one of £400 in respect of damage to timber between 1st July and 13th September, and there is reason to suppose that some of this damage has been done since the truce. The matter is being dealt with. I have not heard of the allegations in the latter part of the question, but I am having inquiry made.