58. Captain CRAIGasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the urgency of the matter and its importance to fishermen on the coast of county Down, he can now make a statement with regard to the improvements it is proposed to carry out in the Royal Harbour of Ardglass, and the amount to be allocated by the Development Commissioners for the purpose, and when the work is to be started; and can he give an approximate date of completion?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe proposal for improvements at Ardglass Harbour has been before the Development Commission, who have reported that they do not see their way to recommend further expenditure from the Development Fund for the development of fisheries on the East Coast of Ireland. I understand that the Department of Agriculture propose to spend considerable sums on harbour works in county Down.
§ Mr. MASTERMANIf the hon. and gallant Gentleman will give me notice, I will find out.
Captain CRAIGIs not the right hon. Gentleman aware that he has hitherto Definitely promised assistance to the harbour at Ardglass which, being a Royal Harbour, is quite outside the Department of Agriculture's jurisdiction, and now after all the trouble that has been taken, there is no Grant?
§ Mr. MASTERMANI said the Development Commission were not giving a Grant. I have no control over the Development Commission at all, nor has the Treasury.
§ Mr. C. BATHURSTIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that already more than a quarter of the whole Development Fund has been allocated to Ireland, and that on population basis they would only be entitled to one-seventeenth?