§ MR. DELANYI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland), whether he is aware that the military authorities in Ireland use quantities of foreign forage; and whether, in view of the allegation that it was through the importation of foreign hay into Scotland that foot-and-mouth disease was introduced into that country, he will make representations to the War Office in connection with this matter.
§ MR. CHERRYInformation as to the sources from which supplies of forage for 220 military purposes in Ireland are obtained has not reached the Department, but, in any case, having regard to the facts stated in reply to the last Question, the Department do not at present propose to address to the military authorities representations of the nature suggested in this further Question.
§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)Have not the Department power to prohibit the importation of this foreign fodder into Ireland?