§ MR. CAREWI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (1) whether he is aware that the wing walls of Blackshade's Railway and Canal Bridge on the road between Clonard and Trim, County Meath, are in a very dilapidated and dangerous condition; that there is a breach in the northwest wall level with the road from which there is a drop of 20 feet; (2) whether he is aware that the secretary to the Grand Jury of the county called the attention of the Railway Company to the state of the bridge two years ago, but they have done nothing up to the present; (3) and whether he will ascertain who is responsible for the repairs, and direct them to be executed?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe facts, I understand, are accurately stated in the first paragraph, but I have no official knowledge of any communications that may have passed between the Secretary to the Grand Jury and the Railway Company in the matter. The question of responsibility for the execution of repairs is not one in which I can express an opinion, nor have I any means of ascertaining upon whom the responsibility rests, but I have directed that a copy of the hon. Member's Question be referred to the Secretary to the Grand Jury.