asked the Minister for Justice whether he is aware that on Saturday night, April 29th, 1928, a marble slab, erected at Countess's Bridge, Killarney, to the memory of Republican soldiers killed there on March 7th, 1923, was torn from its foundation and damaged; whether the Criminal Investigation Department or the Gárda Síochána have made any attempt to trace the perpetrators; if not, whether he will state the reason for such inaction; and whether he proposes to take any steps in the matter.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DAMAGE TO MEMORIAL SLAB.
I have caused inquiries to be made in reference to the subject matter of the Deputy's question, and I have ascertained that on the 4th instant notice of a claim for compensation in respect of alleged malicious damage to a marble slab was served on the superintendent of police at Killarney. The usual police investigations brought to light the fact that this slab had been set in cement in the wall of a railway bridge by known persons without the permission of the railway company, on Sunday, the 22nd April, and was later removed by some unknown person or persons and thrown over the railway bridge. The slab itself appears to have suffered no material damage. The police will give the usual assistance to the county council in reference to the claim made for compensation.