§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)I beg to ask the Financial Secretary to the War Office whether he has received from the Dublin Trades Council a resolution pointing out the desirability of having samples of articles required by the War Department, and sent by Irish contractors, examined at Arbour Hill Receiving Depot instead of at Woolwich, and asking that workshops attached to military barracks should be more largely established in Ireland; and whether he can see his way to complying with this resolution.
LORD STANLEYThis resolution was received, and a reply was sent on the 15th July expressing the inability of the Secretary of State for War to comply with it, as the stores required were not large enough to justify the creation of any local factory.
§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)Is the noble Lord aware that the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland recommended the purchase in Ireland of goods obtainable there?
§ MR. NANNETTIPerhaps, then, the noble Lord will look at the evidence given by the right hon. the Commander-in-Chief in Ireland before the War Office Organisation Committee.