MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a pier and harbour at Dunalt Glencolumbkill, in the County of Donegal, would give accommodation for fishing-purposes to a district occupied by 200 famili s, and that if the work was so planned that trading vessels could call alongside, 500 families could get their goods direct by sea and save the expense of carriage over 30 miles of mountain-roads; has his attention been drawn to the various memorials from time to time addressed to the authorities setting forth the advantages likely to arise from the proposed pier and harbour, and to the favourable Report of Sir William Brady, Inspector of Fisheries, as to the site and the necessity of this work; did Mr. Nicolls, Local Government Board Inspector, who was in 1889 specially sent to investigate the causes of the distress in this part of Donegal, urge, in his Report, the necessity of constructing such a pier and harbour; would he have any objection to lay this Report upon the Table of the House; and will he be able to take any steps to forward a scheme so-conducive to the material prosperity of the people?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURThe construction of a harbour at Glencolumbkill, County Donegal, does not appear to have been under consideration. The making of a pier at that place for the use of the fishermen was suggested by the Local Government Board Inspector, and the Inspectors of Fisheries agreed that it would certainly be of use to the fishermen if funds were available. The, Reports also deal with other matters, in addition to that now in question. They are Departmental documents, and it would be unusual to lay them upon the Table. However desirable the scheme may be, it must, of course, be considered in connection with many similar claims, from other portions of Ireland.