§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury when the Government expect to throw open to the public the recent additions to the Phœnix Park; and whether there would be any difficulty in appropriating further sums from the amount realised from quit rents and woods and forests in Ireland to the improvement and beautification of the new addition.
§ MR. McKENNAThe additional land referred to was acquired with a view not to increasing the area of the Phœnix Park but to preserving its existing amenities. It is separated from the Park by a public road and a large part of it in addition by an unbridged river. I am not prepared to authorise its inclusion in the Park, as I am informed that the expense of such a measure would be prohibitive. It would not be in accordance with the provisions of the Crown Lands Acts to appropriate the Crown Revenues collected by the Commissioners of Woods in Ireland to the purposes referred to in the Question.