§ MR. PINKERTON (Galway)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture if he is aware of any cattle disease within the cordon drawn by the Londonderry Board of Guardians, which district includes the Counties of Derry, Donegal, Tyrone, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Galway, Roscommon, the Poor Law Union of Cavan, and the Union of Longford; whether his attention has been directed to a resolution passed by the Deny Board, protesting against the stoppage of cattle drawn from that district at English and Scotch ports, and thereby prevented reaching the markets in the interior; and if he finds, on inquiry, there is no disease of any kind within this district, he will take steps to remove all restrictions upon the exportation of cattle drawn from that protected area?
§ MR. CHAPLINAs I stated in reply to the hon. Member for Donegal on Thursday last, I felt it necessary to prohibit the removal inland of animals landed in Greenock and Glasgow, not because I had any reason to believe that foot-and-mouth disease existed within the Derry cordon or in any part of Ireland, but because a somewhat serious outbreak had occurred not long ago in Glasgow, and if movement inland from Glasgow and that neighbourhood had been allowed at that time, the risk of spreading the disease would have been very great. I am happy to say that I have now felt myself justified in removing the prohibition against the movement of animals out of Renfrewshire, and there is now no reason why Irish cattle should not be landed at Greenock and sent inland to those counties which do not object to receive them.