§ MR. AUSTIN (Limerick, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland why arrangements could not be made so as to have the tourist steamer plying between Kilrush and Tarbert proceed to Glin and Foynes to meet the train arriving at the latter place from Limerick at noon, so as to afford facilities for the conjoint unions to send on the children to the Glin District School, as also enabling the members of the board of management to attend regularly to the duties essential to the proper working of the institution.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe contract between the Commissioners of Public Works and the Waterford Steamship Company, as the owners of the steamer referred to, is limited to the transit between Tarbert and Kilrush, and it would not be competent, therefore, for the Board of Works to require that the steamer should call at Glin as suggested. It is, of course, open to the authorities interested in the school to negotiate for this purpose with the Waterford Steamship Company.