1906-1907.1
COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS.
IRELAND
Vorks Proposed.
Prorre-i-' Ma le.
Estimated Expended to
Total Cost.
31st March, 1907.
Portnoo.
County Donegal :
Rebuilding of an old piei\ .
Downies Bay, County Donegal :
£ «S', <!.
£ d.
Tho work is completed, but sonu-rock excavation below water has .still
to be measured up and certi¬ fied as finished.
3,360 0 0 2,450 16 1
The extension of the existing pier, The work in completed, and the removal of rock from the i end thereof.
.
4,450 0 n 14,369 9 8
Falcorrib, County Donegal ;
The construction of a boat slip.
Preliminary arrangements were j 1,000 0 0
made, but the necessary formali¬ ties having only been completed after the close of the year, actual work could not be started till Mav, 1907.
National School Grants.
The following table shows the amounts voted for and expended on grants in each of the last twenty years :—
Year.
rro\ ision.
Expenditure.
Year.
Pro\ lhion.
Expenditure.
St £ £ £ 1885-6.
.
22,000 29,125 1896-7, 40,000 40,000 1S86-7, .
30,000 41,220 1897-8, .
40,000 36,500 1887-8, 48,000 51,522 1898-9, .
33,500 27,132 1888-9, 40,000 41,495 1899-1900, 40,000 32,109 1889-90.
40,000 31,189 1900-1, .
40,000 38,554 1890-1, 40,000 27,331 1901-2, .
35,000 26,906 1891-2, 30,000 30,014 1902-3, .
35,000 33,280 1892-3, 30,000 24,283 1903-4 .
35,000 13,142 1893-4, 30,000 28,198 1904-5, .
12,500 18,499 1894-5, 28,000 28,179 1905-6.
.
20,000 28,007 1895-6, .
30,000 40,000 1906-7, .
20,000 13,457
£719,000 £680.142
The smallness of the sum expended in the last financial year is due to a temporary suspension of grants while the new type plans to be published were under consideration by your Lordships and the Irish Government, and to ohe fact that portion of the expenditure covered by the estimate became due and was paid towards the end of 1905-6.
Since the end of the financial year the main points at issue have been settled.
New Royal College of Science for Ireland.
Contract No.
3, comprising the erection of the lower ground floor, was nearly completed during the financial year; arrangements are now in progress to invite tenders for the next floor, as w7ell as for the new Mechanical Engineering School, which will form a separate building contiguous to the new College on a site available at the rear of Nos.
2 & 3 Kildare place.
Queen's College, Belfast.
Considerable additions have been made to this College during the past year.
The work is being carried out by joint contributions from the Exchequer and from moneys locally subscribed.
The Committee of the Better Equipment Eund which has been raised in Belfast for the improvement of the College, voted a sum of £5,400 towards increasing the accommodation for the Departments of Chemistry, Pathology, Physiology, and Medicine, and Your Lordships agreed to grant an equal sum for these purposes and for the better protection of the College grounds.
The most important
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