§ MR. W. MOORE (Antrim)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will endeavour to secure for the Antrim coast some allocation of the moneys now being spent in harbour and pier accommodation in the west of Ireland, and to have same expended in scouring out and rendering reasonably safe the harbours at Ballintoy and Portballintrae, so as to enable the fishermen of those districts to pursue their calling; and if his attention has been called to the present dangerous condition of those harbours for want of the necessary expenditure, and of the strong local demand for same?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am afraid the two harbours mentioned in this Question cannot be considered as possessing claims for special consideration by Government. If the expenditure referred to in the Question is that provided for out of the funds of the Congested Districts Board, the answer is that it would obviously be impossible to apply the funds of that Board to a non-congested district. My attention has been called to the condition of one, if not both of these harbours, by a Question put to me on the 17th ultimo by the honourable Member for Galway, and I would refer my honourable Friend to the reply given by me to that Question.