§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that the cutting of the hill near Mount Charles, County Donegal, for which he stated a presentment had been passed, is a cutting for the purpose of facilitating carriage from the pier and not from the freestone quarries near Mount Charles; whether he has received a memorial adopted at a meeting held in Mount Charles on the 21st January last, and signed by the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, and Methodist clergymen, poor law guardians, and magistrates of the district, informing him of the severe distress prevalent in the district, and asking means to relieve it; and, whether, having regard to the prevailing distress, and the benefit likely to accrue to the quarrying industry, he will consider whether public works can be instituted for cutting the hill between the quarries and the pier and railway station
MR. JOHN MORLLYIn replying to my hon. Friend's previous question of the 16th instant on this subject, I stated that I had directed the Local Government Board Inspector to make further inquiry as to the alleged existence of exceptional distress in the locality mentioned. Pending the receipt of the Inspector's Report I must ask the hon. Gentleman to defer the question. If he will repeat it on Tuesday next I hope to be then in a position to given him an answer.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLasked if the right hon. Gentleman had not been misinformed?
§ [No answer was given.]