Mr. WILLIAM REDMONDasked the Chief Secretary whether he has acquainted himself with the possible important industrial results of tobacco cultivation in Ireland; and whether he will draw the attention of the Development Commission to the desirability of encouraging by further financial assistance this means of promoting employment in Ireland?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI had recently the pleasure of visiting Colonel Everard's tobacco farm, and was greatly impressed by it, as I also was with the agreeable smoking qualities of the production. The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction in Ireland has the matter under consideration.
Mr. WILLIAM REDMONDAfter that answer I shall ask the right hon. Gentleman to accept a small present of this tobacco from me.