§ MR. DALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can say by whose directions a road adjoining the Wellington Monument has been made 212 in the Phœnix Park, Dublin, which greatly disfigures the recreation ground of the citizens of Dublin?
§ MR. HANBURYIt 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. DALYIs the right honourable Gentleman aware that some very pretty trees have been cut down for this purpose?
§ MR. HANBURYI understand they were very small trees.