HC Deb 19 June 1891 vol 354 c903
MR. MAC NEILL (Donegal, S.)

I beg to postpone until Monday my question to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been directed to a letter of the Most Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, Lord Bishop of Raphoe, appearing in the National Press, of 1st June, and of the reports published in the same journal on the 12th and 13th June, in "which it is stated that North West Donegal has been excluded from all participation in relief works; whether a line of railway from Letterkenny to Dunfernaghy and Gweedore was amongst the lines scheduled by the Lord Justices in Council as desirable to have constructed and approved by the Grand Jury of the County of Donegal; and why, having regard to the admitted failure of the potato crop and the destitution of the people, and the increased mortality produced by such destitution, have no relief works such as the construction of railways, and piers and harbours, and the making of roads been instituted in North West Donegal?