HC Deb 27 June 1898 vol 60 cc211-2
MR. DALY

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can say by whose directions a road adjoining the Wellington Monument has been made in the Phœnix Park, Dublin, which greatly disfigures the recreation ground of the citizens of Dublin?

MR. HANBURY

It is not the fact that a road has been made adjoining the Wellington Monument in the Phœnix Park. The circumstances which have given rise to the honourable Member's Question are, I understand, as follows: Owing to the exhaustion of the limestone quarries in the Park, it has recently become necessary to obtain from a distance the supplies of stone required for repairing the roads in the Park, and a spot had to be selected on which the rough stone might be stored in readiness for use. The Board of Works have chosen for this purpose a hollow in the ground on the extreme edge of the Park which is screened from the outside road by a high wall, and from the interior of the Park by rising ground and by a belt of trees.

MR. DALY

Is the right honourable Gentleman aware that some very pretty trees have been cut down for this purpose?

MR. HANBURY

I understand they were very small trees.