DR. AMBROSE (Louth, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state why the Local Government Board has not forwarded the fourth instalment of the loan of £3,000 to the Sanitary Authority of Drogheda?
MR. J. MORLEYApplication for the issue of the fourth instalment of the loan was made in September last, and the Local Government Board having asked the Sanitary Authority for a statement of the work done and expenditure incurred under the loan, the requisite particulars were not furnished to the Board till the 21st ultimo. It has since transpired that the return of expenditure was incorrectly filled up, and the Report of the Board's Chief Engineering Inspector—a necessary preliminary to the issue of the fourth instalment—has in consequence been delayed. Should this Report be satisfactory the further instalment will be paid.