§ MR.W. REDMOND (Fermanagh, N.)asked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether it was a fact that the owner of the houses occupied by the Coastguards as a Coastguard Station at Bannow, county Wexford, had received a three months' notice that the houses are to be vacated; that these houses were built 994 about fifty years ago by the grandfather of the present owner at the request of the Government of the day, and that of recent years they were enlarged and considerably improved; was it intended to abolish the Coastguard Station at Ban-now; and would any compensation be given to the owner of the houses?
§ LORD G. HAMILTONIt is the case that the owner of the houses referred to has received notice that the houses will be vacated, the reason being that they are not kept in proper repair and they are in an insanitary condition. It is not known by whom the houses were originally built or when, but there is no reason to suppose they were built at the request of the Government or taken at other than a quarterly tenancy. The houses were improved by the landlord in 1866. It is not intended to abolish the Coastguard Station at Bannow. There is no ground for a claim for compensation by the owner.