§ MR. DELANYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that chairs have been placed in the Phœnix Park, Dublin, for the occupancy of which visitors have to pay: can he say by whose orders and upon what authority those seats have been introduced and the charges to the public permitted; who collects and receives the funds; and whether the seats are Irish or Foreign manufacture.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) For the convenience of the public attending band performances, cricket and polo matches, etc., the Board, following the analogous 689 arrangement in the public parks under the control of the Office of Works in London, have licensed experimentally the placing of chairs in the Phœnix Park, for which an authorised charge of one penny per diem is made and collected by the agents of the licensee. The Commissioners have no knowledge as to where the chairs were manufactured. The chairs supplied by the licensee are, of course, in addition to, and not in substitution for, the numerous seats and chairs already provided in the park by the Board for which no charge is made.