§ MR. FLYNNI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury, in view of the fact that the respective proportions in which the Treasury subvention in aid of the local rates payable on agricultural land have not yet been fixed by the present Bill as between England, Ireland, and Scotland respectively, whether the Government will consider the propriety of introducing the Irish Bill before taking the remaining stages of the English Bill?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYThe hon. Gentleman is aware that the Question he refers to is only indirectly involved in the Bill now before the House, and I do not think that there is any advantage to be gained by mixing up the Irish Question in the discussion of the English question, the two questions being entirely distinct.
§ MR. FLYNNasked what opportunity the Irish Members would have of arguing the rights of Irish occupiers of land if they could not discuss the proportion to be fixed in the English Bill?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYI should imagine that the hon. Gentleman would have the opportunity he desires in the discussion of the Irish Bill.