§ MR. BODKIN (Roscommon, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will make inquiries into the case of Mrs. Margaret Bigley, of Tuam, County Galway, who holds under a judicial lease a farm at Birmingham, in the neighbourhood of the town, the best part of which farm is almost continually under floods; and if he will press the case on the favour- 1346 able consideration of the Board of Works, with the view of their granting to the tenant a loan for the erection of an embankment which is absolutely necessary for the protection of the farm?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI am informed that Mrs. Bigley's application for a loan for embanking is receiving the consideration of the Board of Works. The papers in the case have been sent to their local Inspector for a Report on the suitability of the proposed embankment and other points which have to be considered before the Board will be in a position to decide on the application.