§ DR. TANNERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention having been directed to the proposed Macroom and Ballyvourney Railway extension, and the unanimous demand for this reproductive public work, the Government are prepared to give any practical facility towards its completion?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThis project was approved of by the Grand Jury of County Cork at the Summer Assizes of 1889, but a guarantee to aid in the construction of the line was refused by that body. The attention of the Board of Works has not since been called to the subject, except by a report in the Cork papers of about three weeks since of a discussion at the Macroom Board of Guardians, at which the project was stated to be very desirable. I am not aware that the line has been begun. There are no funds at the disposal of the Board of Works or the Treasury for assisting the project.