MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will suspend the apportionment of the expenditure upon Richmond Asylum by the Privy Council until the Law of Settlement has been altered; and whether he will arrange a ratio of expenditure based upon the number of patients coming from the County of the City of Dublin, the County of Dublin, the County of Wicklow, the County of the Town of Drogheda, in view of the fact that under the present proposition an increased burden would be cast upon the citizens of Dublin in connection with this asylum?
MR. J. MORLEYThe increased accommodation in connection with Richmond Asylum is an urgent necessity and must be provided forthwith. It would not be practicable to defer the apportionment of the expenditure in the manner suggested. The mode of apportionment has received the careful consideration of a Committee of the Privy Council in Ire-land, before which the parties interested were duly represented.
DR. KENNYThe right hon. Gentleman promised me to give this matter his individual attention. Inasmuch as great injustice is being inflicted on the City of Dublin, will the right hon. Gentleman consider the desirability of reverting to the old system?
MR. J. MORLEYsaid, the matter had been very carefully considered, and he thought the best possible conclusion had been arrived at.