§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the First Commissioner of Works, If he will state, or furnish a Return showing, the proportion of the £242,500, for Surveys of the United Kingdom, which is spent in or for Ireland; if the Secretary to the Treasury will state or furnish a Return showing the portions of the sum of £1,006,785 taken in the Estimates as required to defray the Expenses of the Customs Department is spent in Ire- 1151 land; and, if he will state or furnish a Return showing what portion of the sum of £1,488,772 taken in the Estimates as required for the Inland Revenue Department is spent in Ireland?
§ MR. COURTNEYA Return, Sir, has recently been ordered, on the Motion of the hon. and gallant Member for County Galway (Colonel Nolan), which will show, as accurately as circumstances permit, the sums expended in or for Ireland in the last financial year. If, when this has been circulated, any further information is desired, it will be open to hon. Members to ask for it; but, in the meanwhile, it would only be confusing to answer isolated Questions upon particular points. As regards the Inland Revenue Vote, I may at once refer the hon. Member to the Estimates, to the details of which he does not appear to have referred.
§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNORasked the Postmaster General, if he will state, or furnish a Return showing, what portions of the amounts taken in the Estimates for the Post Office and Post Office Telegraph Services are spent in Ireland?
§ MR. FAWCETTSir, if the hon. Member will refer to the Revenue Estimates, Votes 3, 4, and 5, which relate to the Post Office, he will find such detailed information given under separate heads of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as to the salaries of officers and other items of expenditure, that I do not think any useful end will be served by giving the Return suggested.