§ 39. Mr. HACKETTasked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) whether he can state what steps have been taken to comply with the-request of public bodies in Thurles, county Tipperary, to have the pig market opened; and whether the Department will allow a market to be held on Thursday, 30th instant, for fat pigs, to be conveyed in special wagons to Limerick and Waterford for immediate slaughter?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe Department have given careful consideration to the request of the public bodies in Thurles, but as outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have recently occurred in the town and district, it is regretted the holding of a pig market on 30th instant cannot be sanctioned.