§ MR. O'DONNELLasked the First Lord of the Treasury, If his attention has been called to the opposition to the Government plan for the proposed new Museum of Science and Art, Kildare Street, Dublin; and, whether he will authorise the Irish Local Administra- 1933 tion to consult the wishes of the Irish people in this matter?
§ MR. COURTNEYMy right hon. Friend has asked me to answer this Question as relating to a subject with the details of which he is not conversant. Irish opinion has not been neglected in this matter. It was in deference to local Dublin feeling that the site was most reluctantly abandoned which seemed to the Lord President and other Members of the Government, as well as to their skilled advisers, most eligible; and it is in the interest of the people of Ireland that the Government are reluctant, on account of a sudden reversion of feeling stated to have occurred in Dublin, to postpone indefinitely the commencement of this important work.