asked the Minister for Home Affairs if he will state whether any compensation will be paid to Mr. J.P. Ryan, Railway Hotel, Arklow, for damage to his furniture and for loss of business incurred through the seizure of his furniture in the execution of a decree given against him by Mr. Little, District Justice, and which decision was quashed with costs in the King's Bench Division on the grounds that Ryan was decreed on a date prior to the date for which the summons was issued?
WRITTEN ANSWERS. - COMPENSATION FOR HOTEL FURNITURE.
Mr. O'HIGGINS
In regard to the Court proceedings in this case, the facts are as stated. The Gárda Síochana, who stored the furniture, report that they handed the articles over in the same condition in which they were seized to Mr. Paul Frith, the Rate Collector responsible for the institution of the original proceedings, who returned them to Mr. Ryan, the owner. I have no information as to what subsequently happened the furniture beyond the statement of Mr. Ryan, who has applied for compensation. I can accept no responsibility in regard to this claim.