MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can allay the apprehension created in some districts in Ireland that there will be delay or non-payment of the equivalent for the 4s. grant for lunatics in consequence of the new arrangements under the Local Government Act.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOUROn the 16th June the Bank of Ireland was authorised to pay out of the Local Taxation Account the claims of all the asylums in Ireland in respect of the year ending 31st December, 1898, which had come in by that date audited and certified by the auditors. The claims of four asylums only were outstanding on the 16th June; two of these have since been received and paid; the remaining two will be paid when received.