asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the difficulties that are being placed in the way of residents in Tirconaill who desire to import goods through Dublin by reason of the fact that the Great Northern Railway line has to pass through the Six Counties; if, in particular, his attention has been drawn to a letter dated 14th January, 1924, addressed to the Customs Officer at Lifford by the Mills-Fulford Limited, Coventry, in which they complain that a spring consigned by them six months before to the Motor Company, Raphoe, and on which duty had been paid on its entry into the Saorstát at North Wall, had been again held up at Lifford for the same duty, the article in question having only left the Saorstát during its passage from Dublin to Lifford; if the spring has since been delivered at the proper address; and if the Minister will take steps to have goods, consigned by rail from Dublin direct to places in Donegal, freed from delays and restrictions of this sort, as otherwise the tendency will be to import direct through Derry or Belfast instead of via Dublin.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - IMPORT DUTY ON A SPRING.
I am having inquiry made as regards the spring referred to in the question, and I must ask the Deputy to postpone the question pending the completion of the inquiry.
May we expect the result of the inquiry at an early date?
Within a few days.