asked th Chief Secretary if, in the event of the Home Rule proposals of the Government becoming law, it would be possible for the Dublin Parliament to charge such tolls on all passenger vessels entering Kingstown Harbour as would wipe out the existing annual loss of £6,000 on the working of the harbour?

It would be within the powers of the Irish Parliament to alter the enactments which regulate the payment of tolls in respect of vessels entering an Irish harbour. Whether any such alteration will be made, or what its effect on the harbour revenue, if any, may be, it is impossible for me to anticipate.