§ Return ordered, "of the total amount of money advanced by the State by loan or grant for the construction of railways in Ireland, showing the separate amounts advanced on the different lines now in the possession of the existing companies; the amount of principal and interest repaid by railway companies to the Treasury, segregated amongst the existing companies; the net amount of the baronial guarantees paid by each Irish county to railway companies, any recoupment made by the Treasury being deducted from the gross amount; the amount presented and passed for this purpose during the year 1898, and the companies to whom it was paid."—(Mr. Field.)