§ MR. GWYNNTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, if steps have been taken to increase the number of points at which life-saving apparatus is kept on the West Coast of Ireland; if he will state the present number of these points; and if he will call the attention of the Irish Lights Commissioners to the want of a lighted buoy on the western point of the Margaretta Shoal in Galway Bay.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) My right hon. friend has asked me to reply to this Question. Steps have been taken to establish four new life-saving apparatus stations on the West Coast of Ireland viz., at Kilrush, Costello Bay, and at North and South Arran. Life-saving apparatus was previously kept at six stations on the coast between Valentia and Tory Island, not reckoning a number of places at which the belts and lines equipment was provided. As regards the latter portion of the Question, the Board of Trade have lately given their statutory sanction to a proposal made by the Commissioners of Irish Lights to establish a lighting and whistling buoy on the Margaretta Shoal.