§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick's)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the few soldiers stationed at the Pigeon House could be temporarily 521 accommodated elsewhere, as their location in the fort is said to delay the progress of the main drainage scheme; and whether his Department and the Irish Government will co-operate in facilitating the commencement of this urgently needed improvement?
§ *MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThis is not a question of a few troops who could be moved out at will, but of the Ordnance Store establishment for all Ireland. The men cannot be moved until the stores can be accommodated elsewhere. I would call upon the hon. Member to use all his influence, and I will certainly exert all mine, to bring about such an arrangement as I pointed to yesterday.
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANIt is equally serious so far as the War Office is concerned. At this place is situated the store establishment for the whole of Ireland. We are anxious, however, to meet the Corporation of Dublin as far as possible.
§ MR. CLANCY (Dublin Co., N.)What is the exact difficulty in the way?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANIt is that the scheme has been pronounced by the Army Sanitary Commission to be injurious to the health of the occupants of Pigeon House Fort, and what we are now endeavouring to do is to got the Corporation to acquire the Pigeon House site on condition of giving us a site elsewhere.
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI know the Liffey.