§ MR. H. A. HERBERTasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the Reproductive Loan Fund was intended for the benefit of eight maritime and four inland counties of Ireland only; and, if so, whether he has any objection to name to the House which these counties are and whether he proposes, in the present Session, to bring in a measure to extend the Fund to other counties not contemplated in the original grant?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTONsaid, in reply, that he did not think it would be expedient to extend the benefit of this Fund to counties not named in the Act relating thereto.