§ MR. TULLYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the amount deducted as an excluded charge from the Agricultural Grant for the county Roscommon in respect of the Suck drainage charges; whether he is aware that the Suck drainage charges are not charges in connection with navigation works under Drainage and Navigation (Ireland) Acts, 1842 to 1857, or any special Act whether public or local; and whether he will have the Agricultural Grant to Roscommon increased in respect of this matter.
§ *MR. G. W. BALFOURThe amount deducted as an excluded charge from the Agricultural Grant to Roscommon 653 in respect of the Suck drainage charges is –100. As regards the second and third paragraphs, the Commissioner of Valuation is of opinion that the Suck Drainage Act of 1889, under which these charges arise, fairly comes within the description given in the latter part of Section 57, Subsection 6, paragraph 1, of the Local Government Act, and therefore that these charges should be excluded from the benefit of the Agricultural Grant.
§ *MR. G. W. BALFOURI have not the details here, but if the hon. Member will put down a question I will attend to it.