§ MR. ROCHE (Galway, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland has been directed to reports from experts and from their inspectors upon the prevalence of foul brood, and the need for compulsory powers for dealing with the disease; and whether, seeing that the subject of the need for compulsory powers in the treatment of foul brood in Ireland has been before the Department since 1901, when the Irish Beekeepers Association submitted statements thereon to the Vice-President, the Department will now take steps to promote legislation to meet the case.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThis matter was dealt with in the reply given on the 8th February to a Question of the hon. Member for South Kerry†.