MR. O'KEEFFEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Whether the county of Waterford, which possesses a sea coast of about forty miles, including several fishing stations, will be entitled to any portion of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, by way of loan, or otherwise, in order to enable the fishermen along that coast to develop their industry?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, that the county of Waterford was not one of the counties originally included in the list of those entitled to the benefit of the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, and the Act of last Session made no addition to the counties so entitled. He had communicated with a society established in Ireland for the bettering of the condition of poor fishermen by granting them loans, and had suggested that in future they should confine their loans to counties similarly circumstanced to Waterford, as not being provided for under the Act.