§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether his attention has been called to the character of the accommodation on the Ballinrobe and Claremorris Light Railway; whether he is aware that on various occasions several persons travelling between the two places were forced to stand up in cattle trucks and vans; that there is no train leaving the town of Ballinrobe later than 2 o'clock p.m. each day; that the people of that district have repeatedly asked the Midland and Great Western Railway Company for better train accommodation without result; and, if so, whether he will communicate with the Agricultural Department, with a view to getting that body to give a grant in aid of extra accommodation on this line at the earliest possible moment.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The question of the sufficiency of accommodation for passengers by this railway is one for the Board of Trade, to the President of which Department I beg to refer the hon. Member. I will commend it to the attention of my right hon. friend. As regards the concluding part of the Question, the Department of Agriculture do not consider that their funds 921 could be properly supplied to the purpose suggested.