MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if Her Majesty's Government are prepared to state that they will maintain a strictly neutral attitude as to the proposals of rival railway companies for the acquisition of the Waterford and Lismore Railway and the Treasury mortgage there-upon, and generally on the Bills promoted by the Fishguard and Rosslare Railway Company, on the one hand, and the Great Western and Great Southern Railway Companies, on the other, as to the proposed route to the South of Ireland from England?
§ MR. HANBURYThe conditions contemplated in Clause 11 of the provisional agreement with the Great Western and Great Southern Railway Companies not having been fulfilled, it is proposed that the two rival schemes should be submitted in the usual course and on their merits alone to a Select Committee of this House, as the most fitting tribunal to decide upon the many technical and other issues involved.