§ MR. GILHOOLY (Cork, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Board of Works have reported favourably on an extension of the railway to deep water at Bantry to accommodate the rapidly increasing fishing traffic on that coast, and recommended a grant to be made under the provisions of the Light Railway Act of last Session; whether this railway extension was also recommended by the Royal Commission on Irish Public Works and sanctioned by the Grand Jury at the last Spring Assizes held in Cork; whether the Cork and Bandon Railway Company are prepared to work the extension line, and to contribute a substantial sum towards the cost of its construction; and whether, the necessary preliminary steps having been taken, the Treasury will now sanction the grant and enable the undertaking to be carried out without further delay?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.The statements contained in the first three paragraphs are substantially correct. The distance is about a mile. The cost would be very heavy, and it is thought there are other works more urgent than this.