HC Deb 18 March 1901 vol 91 cc243-4
MR. KENNEDY (Westmeath, N.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will take steps to co-ordinate the administration of Government grants for encouraging improvement in the breeding of live stock in Ireland by transferring to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland the grant now made for that purpose to the Royal Dublin Society.

MR. WYNDHAM

The grant now made to the Royal Dublin Society for encouraging improvement in the breeding of live stock in Ireland is, by mutual arrangement, administered in co-ordination with the Department of Agriculture. In framing its schemes the Society has conferred with the Department, and has endeavoured to frame its rules so as to avoid the risk of its work overlapping or conflicting with the work of the Department.

MR. KENNEDY

Does not the present system produce friction?

MR. WYNDHAM

I understand that the Royal Dublin Society and the Public Department are working in harmony on this matter.