§ MR. MAURICE HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he has received resolutions from the inhabitants of Carrignavar and Whitechurch, near Cork, pressing for State assistance for the construction of a light railway through that district to connect with the city of Cork at one end and the Rathduff Station of the Great Southern and Western Railway at the other; and whether, as the funds at the disposal of the Government for railway development in Ireland are now exhausted, and in view of the fact that all the moneys voted for the purpose under the Railways (Ireland) Act, 1896, were spent in one county in the north-west of Ireland, he will introduce legislation enabling something to be done for light railway development in the south of Ireland.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURCopies of the resolutions referred to in the first paragraph have been received. It is not correct to say that the whole of the money provided by the Railways Act of 1896 has been expended in one county in the north-west of Ireland. I cannot at present undertake to introduce legislation of the kind suggested in the second paragraph of the Question.