HC Deb 12 August 1901 vol 99 cc450-1
MR. GILHOOLY

I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can say what are the rights reserved to the public in the agreement made between the Board of Trade and the trustees of the Bantry Estate in connection with the foreshore of Bantry Bay.

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

The conveyance to the Bantry Estate Trustees to which the hon. Member refers contains a reservation of all public rights of way to and over the property conveyed. The conveyance also contains a covenant by the trustees not to erect on the property conveyed without the consent of the Board of Trade any building which would, in the Board's opinion, be prejudicial to rights of navigation.

MR. T. M. HEALY

Will the right hon. Gentleman let us have the conveyance in the form, say, of a parliamentary Paper?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

I do not think that desirable.

MR. T. M. HEALY

Is it not a conveyance from a State Department to a private individual of a grant of foreshore over which the public had rights? How are we to know what the rights thus conveyed are?

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

I have stated what the rights are.