§ Mr. CLANCYasked the President of the Board of Trade with reference to the application of Lord Talbot de Malahide for an Order prohibiting the taking of sand from a certain portion of the foreshore at Malahide, county Dublin, and the visit paid by an officer of the Board in connection therewith to Malahide on the 13th March, whether he will say how long that visit lasted; whether any other opportunity was taken of learning the views of the tenants of Lord Talbot de Malahide on the subject; whether he will say what were the grounds alleged for the making of the Order; and whether the fact will be taken into account, before any Order is made, that the tenants have not only enjoyed the right to take sand from the place in question for a very long period, but find sand necessary for the proper working of their holdings?
Mr. ROBERTSONOn receiving an application for the prohibition of the removal of materials from the foreshore at Malahide, the Board of Trade caused it to be advertised, and it was in consequence of an objection made on behalf of certain of Lord Talbot de Malahide's tenants that the Board decided to send one of their officers to visit the spot and to confer with those interested. This officer arrived at Malahide in the evening of 12th March last, and inspected the shore early the following morning, and before leaving conferred with such of those tenants as desired to lay their views before him. The grounds alleged for making such an Order were that the removal of materials caused erosion of the coast, and thereby damaged the adjacent land. The tenants do not appear to have any legal right to remove material, and they take it mainly for building purposes, much of it being carried away by rail.