asked the Minister for Home Affairs if he is aware that complaints have been made as to the insufficient number of Peace Commissioners appointed in certain districts in Tirconaill, that there is no Peace Commissioner in the large Court District of Falcarragh, with the result that the Gárdaí Síochána and public are much inconvenienced, having sometimes to travel fifteen miles through a wild country to the Gweedore District in order to get affidavits, declarations, warrants, etc., signed, and if requests have been made for the appointment of a Peace Commissioner in Creeslough, and, further, to ask if representations have been received suggesting the appointment of at least one other Peace Commissioner for Letterkenny, where, owing to the presence of a number of solicitors' offices and of the County Headquarters of "An Gárda," the services of the Commissioners are often requisitioned; and if the Minister will look into the matter and see that a sufficient number of Peace Commissioners are appointed.
WRITTEN ANSWERS. - PEACE COMMISSIONERS IN TIRCONAILL.
Mr. O'HIGGINS
Complaints have reached me that there were not sufficient Peace Commissioners in certain districts in Tirconaill, and I am taking steps to remedy the insufficiency in the Falcarragh District and in Creeslough. As regards Letterkenny there are four Peace Commissioners in the town already, and two near it, and I am not satisfied that more are required.
I should like to add that it has not been an easy matter to appoint Peace Commissioners all over the country, and that in point of fact Tirconaill, as a whole, is better off as regards Peace Commissioners than any other county in the Saorstát.