§ MR. MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he has received a Memorial, influentially signed, urging the necessity of constructing a road as a relief work over Knockalla Mountain, County Donegal, and pointing out the danger to life and limb to which persons are at present exposed who have to cross it at night or in bad weather; 24 and if he is aware that the inhabitants of the district are very poor, and urgently require relief, and if any reply has been sent to the Memorialists?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.A Memorial urging the construction of a road over the mountain mentioned was received and duly acknowledged. But, however useful such a road might be, it is not one that could be undertaken as a relief work, as destitution does not exist in the district to any exceptional extent.