§ MR. HEALYasked Mr. Attorney General for Ireland, Whether, in cases where the ordinary poor rate has been paid and accepted, and the seed rate remains outstanding, the occupier's right to the franchise is lost?
§ THE ATTOENEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON)The instalment of seed rate which is payable is by the Statute, as I pointed out yesterday in reply to the hon. Member for Dungarvan (Mr. O'Donnell), "to be added to the poor rate, and to be collected therewith." Therefore, there cannot lawfully be a part payment of this aggregate rate under the description of "ordinary poor rate," or any other description. Consequently, the hypothesis on which the hon. Member's Question is founded cannot, in point of law, arise.
§ MR. O'DONNELLinquired, if there was any provision in the Seeds Act repealing portion of the Reform Act which made the non-payment of the poor rate the only ground for disfranchising?
§ [No reply.]