SECOND READING. (Hansard, 20 March 1883)

§ MR. TREVELYAN

, in moving that the Bill be now read a second time, said, that objections to the Bill had been made by the hon. Members for Water-ford and Dublin; but after a long consultation with those hon. Gentlemen he was able to satisfy them completely on the points they raised. Another hon. Member (Mr. Callan) also objected to 988 the measure on precisely similar grounds; but he gave him ample opportunity of proposing his Amendment when the Bill had reached its Committee stage. This measure proposed to do for the North and East of Ireland what the Reproductive Loans Fund and another measure did for the South and West; and he hoped, after the promise he had made, that the hon. Member (Mr. Callan) would now allow the Bill to be read a second time.

§ MR. CALLAN

said, that his constituents would be amongst those who would derive benefit from this measure; but there were one or two portions of the Bill to which he should object. One was the proposal to place the Fund under the control of the Board of Works. He was afraid that the Board of Works had such an insatiable maw that it would swallow all the money that would be given for the purposes of the Bill. He would accept, however, the assurance given by the Chief Secretary that ample time would be given on the Committee stage of the Bill to consider all its details; and he did not, therefore, propose to prevent its second reading, which he certainly would have done had not the assurance been given.