§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will ascertain from the duty book at Store Street police station, Dublin, and say how many men were on duty, where, and at what hours from the proclamation of the Irish republic at noon on 24th April last until the police were withdrawn on 25th April; and whether any of the police were shot by insurgents in that time?
§ Mr. DUKEFrom noon on the 24th April thirty-eight men belonging to the Store Street station were on duty on the streets policed from that station until two o'clock, and from three o'clock on the same date forty men from the same station were on duty on the streets until 6 a.m. on 25th April, when they were withdrawn. No member of the Store Street police station was shot or wounded on the dates mentioned, as upon the murder of two constables elsewhere in the city the police of the division were withdrawn from the region where firing was going on.