§ Sir THOMAS ESMONDEasked the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) if anything will be done to remove the wreckage, which causes inconvenience to the fishermen, about Black-water, in county Wexford, and with regard to which repeated representations have been made to the Admiralty and to the Irish Lights Board, giving full particulars as to the nature and position of the wreckage, but so far without any result?
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§ Mr. T. W. RUSSELLThe Department understand that the Wexford County Council are endeavouring to obtain tenders for the removal of the wrecks along the Wexford coast and to secure the consent of the Board of Trade to the removal of those in Rosslare Bay. The Department have already intimated to the council that when these preliminaries shall have been settled they would be prepared to consider the question of contributing to the cost of carrying out the project. On the 10th ultimo the council passed a resolution postponing the consideration of the matter until the consent of the Board of Trade would be forthcoming. The council have not since communicated with the Department on the subject.