§ MR. ROSSI beg to ask the Secretary of State of War if he has received a resolution from the Committee of the Dublin Ratepayers' Association, protesting against the Corporation scheme of main drainage as most expensive and inefficient; and whether the War Department has any power to sell the Pigeon House Fort, being an armed fortress, to the Corporation for the purposes of this scheme?
§ MR. WOODALL(who replied) said: No such resolution as that referred to can be traced as having been received at the War Office. The Government has power to sell Pigeon House Fort.
§ MR. ROSSHas the hon. Gentleman any objection to state whether the Report received from the Royal Engineers on the subject is favourable or unfavourable to the scheme?
§ * MR. WOODALLI have not seen the Report, but I imagine it would only deal with the scheme so far as it affected the interests of the War Office. The responsibility for the general character of the scheme rests not with the War Office, but with the citizens of Dublin.