§ MR. HARRIS (Tynemouth)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in view of the fact that one of the members of the Congested Districts Board for Ireland has been able 1794 to secure the application of funds of the Board to the parish of Kiltimagh, County Mayo, in which he is locally interested, whilst in the poorer parish of Carna, County Galway, in which he is not so interested, the Board has spent little or nothing, he will state what has been the gross expenditure by the Board to the present date in each of these parishes.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The assertion of fact in this Question is presumably based on an erroneous statement to which, I am aware, some publicity has recently been given. I am much obliged to my hon. friend for the opportunity he has afforded me of pointing out that the statement, and more especially the inference sought to be drawn from it, are without foundation. The gross expenditure by the Congested Districts Board on schemes in the parish of Kiltimagh was £15,578 to the 31st March last, whilst in the parish of Carna the Board's expenditure to the same date amounted to £40,895.