§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary, seeing that there are only three men in the Irish Constabulary Force now suffering financially and in the matter of promotion for the offence of having got married without permission, and that most of the suffering in both respects results from rules and not from Statute, whether he will consider the desirability of relaxing those rules to the extent of making some reparation to those three unfortunate men?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThere are only three men in the position described in the question asked by the hon. Member on the 23rd June. I have nothing to add to my reply to that question.
§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Secretary to the Treasury (1) the total receipts and total payments of the Irish Constabulary Force Fund during the term of office of each Inspector-General since 1836, showing the payments under three heads, rewards to members of the force, grants to head constables on promotion to district inspectorships, and payments to widows and children of subscribers; (2) the amounts of receipts and expenditure, respectively, of the Irish Constabulary Force Fund, reward branch, from 1st April, 1891, to 31st March, 1913, distinguishing in the receipts, fines and penalties, disciplinary fines, verification of weights and measures, and other sources, and distinguishing in the expenditure rewards to officers for good police duty, rewards to men for good police duty, rewards for freedom from unfavourable records, to cover, the expenses on retirement to head constables on promotion, and other charges; (3) will he state for the three years ended 31st March, 1913, the number of cases in which payments have been made out of the Irish Constabulary Force Fund, benefit branch, to the widows and children of officers and of men, respectively; the number of persons relieved; the maximum and minimum grants; the amounts contributed to the 2204W fund in those maximum and minimum cases; the total contributions and total grants in the cases of the officers and men, respectively; and (4), if he will state from the Annual Reports of the Irish Constabulary Force Fund the amount added to that fund as interest on investments every year from the 10th August, 1866 to 1891?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI will consider how far the information asked for in these four questions can usefully be included in the statement which I propose to publish when the Actuarial Inquiry into the position of the fund is completed. In the meantime, I do not think that any useful purpose would be served by publishing the various items asked for by the hon. Member.