§ SIR JAMES HASLETT (Belfast, N.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury what arrangement has been made for payment of capitation grant for lunatic poor in Ireland, for three months preceding the beginning of financial year, under the Local Government Act, 1898, and when the amount will be paid to the local bodies.
§ The following questions on the same subject also appeared on the Paper:—
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if his attention has been called to a resolution of the Ennis Asylum Committee, in which they called on the Treasury to refund to the asylums of Ireland the amount of the Rate-in-Aid withheld by them in respect of the first three-quarters of the year 1899; and whether the Government will favourably consider this request.
§ SIR THOMAS ESMONDE (Kerry, W.)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he is in a position to state the result of the Treasury examination of the case submitted to them with reference to the Asylums' Grant-in-Aid for Ireland for the year 1899; what sum will be refunded to Ireland as the result of this examination; and how will the refund be made.
§ MR. HANBURYThe last payment from voted moneys was in respect of the calendar year 1897. The income of the Local Taxation Account did not begin until 286 the beginning of the financial year 1898–9—namely, 1st April, 1898. There is, therefore, a gap of three months in respect of which payment is due to the Local Taxation Account from the Imperial Exchequer.