§ MR. MAURICE HEALY (for Mr. TIMOTHY HEALY)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the original estimate for the Greystones Harbour, County Wicklow, by the engineer of the Board of Works, was £10,000; that, to make up this sum, the Piers and Harbours Commissioners, under the Act of 1883, 46 and 47 Vic, c. 26, made a free grant, out of the £250,000 granted by that Act, of £8,500, and that the balance was made up according to the Report of the Inspectors of Fisheries for 1890 by a contribution of £500, and a loan secured by the locality of £1,000; while according to the Return to Parliament, dated 5th April, 1892, No. 153, the expenditure on this harbour was £17,870, and a further sum of £2,087, estimated to complete the works, making a total of nearly £20,000, instead of £10,000 as originally contemplated; and was this additional £10,000 given as a free grant out of the £250,000; and, if so, has it been made on the recommendation of the Piers and Harbours Commissioners, to whom the allocation of this £250,000 was entrusted by the Act of 1883, or were they consulted in the matter; and, if not, on whose authority has it been done?
SIR JOHN GORSTI think this question has been put on the Paper by some inadvertence. I believe identically the same question was answered on 3rd June. I have nothing to add to it.