Mr. NUGENTasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware that three policemen in plain clothes visited the Army Ordnance Department, Island Bridge, Dublin, on the 8th May, 1916, to make inquiry respecting officials employed in that Department, that the police reported their presence to the officer in charge and stated the purpose of their visit or that they communicated with other officials as to the purpose of their visit; if he will have a full inquiry made into the circumstances of this visit and state if there was any reason to suspect that the two officials regarding whom inquiry was made took any part in the disturbances in Dublin; if this visit was prompted by an anonymous letter; and, if so, whether any effort was made to trace the writer of this letter?
§ Mr. DUKEThe police have no information as to any such visit. If they had had I could not consistently with the public interests give the particulars for which the hon. Member asks.