§ MR. WEBBI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade how the matter stands with regard to placing an improved light at the Old Head of Kin-sale; whether the Commissioners of Irish Lights have ever sent a formal application, accompanied by estimates of the cost, for the. placing of the electric light at that station; and, if so, what is the amount of such estimate; and whether the Board of Trade and the Trinity House have given their statutory sanction for the commencing of the work?
§ MR. MUNDELLAI have replied to these questions in my answers to the hon. Member for Dublin City (St. Stephen's Green Division) on June 19th last and to the hon. Member for Londonderry City on August 25th last, in which I stated that in March, 1891, the Commissioners of Irish Lights applied to the Trinity House for the requisite sanction to the establishment of a fixed electric light at the Old Head of Kinsale, and that the Trinity House declined to give their statutory approval.