§ Order for Third Reading read.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Bill be now read the third time."
MR. T. M. HEALY (Lonth, N.)said, he was sorry that no one representing the War Department was present, as he should like to make one remark about the Bill. This was a Bill dealing with a large sum of money to be raised for main drainage in Dublin, and he regretted to say that the War Department, instead of assisting and co-operating in getting this main drainage work done as cheaply as possible, had thrown every obstacle in its way, and had raised difficulties 894 especially in regard to laud in the neighbourhood of the Pigeon House Fort. He had intended to put a question to the Secretary of State for War suggesting to the right hon. Gentleman that, as the Government had obtained the Wellington Barracks, which was formerly the Richmond Prison, and which cost the citizens of Dublin over £100,000, the least the War Department might do was to give the land at the Pigeon House Fort in exchange for the new barracks which they had obtained as a free gift. If the War Department insisted on extracting from the citizens of Dublin a large sum by way of fine for carrying out what was really the sanitation of the city, and in which the Army were as much interested as any other citizen, he should raise the entire question on the Army Estimates. Those who remembered the outbreak of typhoid fever in the barracks at Dublin would recognise how much the citizens would gain by the cleansing of the Liffey.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill read the third time, and passed, without Amendment.