HC Deb 03 April 1905 vol 144 cc94-5
MR. MURPHY (Kerry, E.)

To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, seeing that, owing to the disagreement existing between the Agricultural and Technical Department and the Congested Districts Board, the working of technical and agricultural schemes in the county of Kerry and elsewhere will be paralysed by reason of the refusal of grants for congested districts, he can take any steps to secure an understanding between these Departments in the public interest, so that local effort in Kerry and other counties shall not be rendered useless.

(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) There is no disagreement between the Department and the Congested Districts Board. The Department's agricultural scheme applies equally to the entire county, and their scheme of technical instruction is also applicable over congested and non-congested areas. The Congested Districts Board subsidise their own schemes of industrial work in the congested districts, but they have no funds to assist the county scheme of technical instruction in these districts.