MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that a large sum of money, nearly £1,000, being the balance of a fund collected for the relief of families belonging to a number of people who had resided in Achil Island, and who had been drowned some years since, and that this residue had been deposited with the Congested Districts Board for some permanent improvement of the inhabitants of that island; and whether, seeing that the committee of this fund who deposited this money with the board were desirous that this money should be applied to the erection of a pier at Dugort, and that the Congested Districts Board are willing, if their resources allowed, to make a grant of £500, he will recommend to the Treasury that the provisions of the Act 29 and 30 Vic, c. 45, passed for the encouragement of sea fisheries in Ireland, should be applied to the erection of a fishery pier at Dugort, and that the Treasury should sanction a grant for the sum required for this work, and the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland be authorised to undertake and commence it without delay?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR) (Leeds, CentralThe facts are substantially as stated in the first paragraph. The amount in the hands of the Congested Districts Board for the purpose indicated is £926. The question of erecting a pier at Dugort has been engaging the attention of the Government, who are in communication on the subject with the Commissioners of Public Works.