§ Mr. LARDNERasked the Secretary to the Treasury if he was aware that, although the Irish County Surveyors' Association had been requested to prepare a map for the purposes of the allocation of the Road Improvement Fund, the Road Board, without waiting for the surveyors' map, issued their own map; whether he was aware that dissatisfaction had been expressed by several of the county surveyors at the roads selected in their respective counties by the Road Board, mainly on the ground that the Road Board's scheme was devised for the convenience of tourists and that the representatives of several of the counties had intimated that they would not undertake the improvement of the roads on the Board's scheme if it entailed any extra cost on them; and whether he would take steps to arrange for an exchange of views between the representatives of the Road Board, the Irish county surveyors, and the county councils, at an early date and before any scheme for Ireland was finally determined on?
§ Mr. PERCY ILLINGWORTH (Lord of the Treasury)Arrangements have been made for an exchange of views between the Road Board and representatives of 1897 Irish county Councils and county surveyors before any scheme of road improvement in Ireland is finally determined upon.