§ MR. DILLONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, what is the amount of money paid to the Local Taxation (Ireland) Account under the Local Taxation (Ireland) Estate Duty Act of 1896; and to what purposes the Government intend that this money shall be devoted?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURIt is not possible at the present time to make an exact statement of the amount payable to Ireland, and I am not yet in a position to state the purposes to which the Government propose to allocate the money in Ireland.