asked the Minister for Home Affairs whether any provision has been made for the maintenance of police throughout the country, whether any arrangements have been made for the conveyance and detention of prisoners and whether he is prepared to advance sums to Brigade Police Officers to assist them in the execution of their duties.
CONVEYANCE AND DETENTION OF PRISONERS.
I would refer the Deputy with regard to the first part of the question to the reply which I gave to the question raised by Deputy Stack on yesterday. With regard to the second part of the question—"Whether any arrangements have been made for the conveyance and detention of prisoners"— any difficulty that existed hitherto in that respect is gradually disappearing for the reason that both military and police barracks are coming into the hands of our men, who are occupying them, so that I think in the immediate future there will be practically no difficulty at all.
As regards the third part of the question, if there are circumstances under which a Brigade Police Officer requires any special advance he can make application to the Chief of Police.