§ MR. FIELDTo ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, if he can state whether it was contemplated that after a period of five years from the 1st January, 1908, the Irish Ordnance Survey should be placed under local control; and whether the Irish branch of this service is directed by the Valuation Commissioners to meet their requirements from time to time.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) No such change as my hon. friend suggests is in contemplation. The Commissioner of Valuation is constantly in communication with the Survey officers, and suitable arrangements are made to meet his requirements.