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Amendment proposed—
Page 6, line 8, after 'arrange' insert 'in any area not being an urban district as hereinafter in this Act defined.'
MR. T. M. HEALYThis is not a very important clause, but there are two matters in which it appears to me to need amendment. As I understand it, it is the intention of the Government that in an urban district the urban authority should have the final control over district works. That, Sir, is provided for in Section 22. A rural district authority can only make proposals, which have to be accepted and ratified by the county council. In an urban district that is not so, and the urban district council, as regards district works, is the final authority. It appears to me that this clause is somewhat inconsistent with that general provision, because it appears to place the county council as the authority over the urban district council, even in the case of district works. I see that the honourable Member for South County Dublin has based an Amendment on the same point.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI think the honourable Member's objection will be met by an Amendment which I put on the Paper last night, dealing with this point.
§ Amendment by leave withdrawn.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURmoved—
Page 6, line 9, after 'work' insert 'the post of maintaining which is raised by the county council.'
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ MR. M. HEALYmoved—
Page 6, line 9, after 'work,' insert 'or any pier, harbour, or other work or building required to be kept in repair at the expense of the county or any district therein.'"Work" was, he said, defined in a later section to mean "work not executed by presentment." There were some county works not executed by presentment which he thought, would be more susceptible to sudden damage than any public work. Would the right honourable Gentleman accept his Amendment?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI think the words of the section, as amended—"Any public work the cost of maintaining which is raised by the county council"—will cover the Amendment of the honourable Gentleman.
§ MR. M. HEALYNo; I do not think so.
§ MR. ATKINSONWe will alter the definition of the word.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI quite understand the honourable Member's point, and will take care that it shall be properly met.
§ Amendment by leave withdrawn.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURmoved—
Page 6, line 13, at end, insert—For the purposes of this section 'repair of sudden damage,' means such repair of any sudden damage to any public work, and such erection of any temporary work in place of any public work suddenly carried away or destroyed, and such collection or preservation of the materials of any damaged public work, as, subject to the general directions of the county council, the county surveyor considers cannot, without prejudice to the public, be delayed until the ordinary procedure relating to the repair of public works can be followed.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ MR. M. HEALYmoved—
Page 6, line 14, leave out 'business,' and insert 'powers.'This was, he said, merely a verbal Amendment.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI have no objection to it.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ MR. M. HEALYmoved—
Page 6, line 14, after 'justices,' insert 'and of extraordinary presentment sessions.'He did not know whether the right honourable Gentleman was prepared to accept this Amendment.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURYes, I will accept it.
§ Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 11, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.