MR. O'KEEFFEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he could recommend that, under the 48th section of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, means would be devised whereby an annual sum should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund towards the relief of agricultural land situate within the boundary of any borough, or of any town being an urban sanitary district, as is provided for the relief of all other agricultural land in Ireland under said section?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe suggestion in this Question is inconsistent with the provisions of the Irish Local Government Act.