asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that farmers in the Cooley district of County Louth have recently been put to great inconvenience and loss of time owing to the fact that the L.M. and S. Railway has failed to provide a sufficient number of wagons to convey the beet crop to Carlow, and if he is prepared to make any representations to the Railway Company on the matter.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - LOUTH BEET GROWERS' COMPLAINT.
The management of the Dundalk, Newry and Greenore Railway inform me that within the last few days they received a complaint in general terms from the Carlow Sugar Factory as to shortages of wagons for the carriage of beet. The complainants have been asked to furnish specific cases. The programme of wagon requirements laid down by the sugar factory at the beginning of the beet season appears since to have been cancelled by the factory, so far as this railway is concerned, and wagons for the Cooley area are now requisitioned by the factory as occasion requires. If reasonable notice is given to the railway company no difficulty need arise. In the event of any risk of shortage due to an unusual number being required at once, wagons are borrowed from the Great Northern Railway.