MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the case of how many unions did the Irish Local Government Board increase the allowance to be made in respect of the standard rate by reason of special circumstances, and how many applications for increased allowance on the standard year were received.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR)The Local Government Board 587 increased the assessment of the standard year under Section 49 (1) of Local Government Act on account of exceptional circumstances in forty-nine unions. The number of cases in which definite application for an increase under this section were made to the Board were fifty-six, but in the case of about twenty other unions resolutions were passed of an indefinite character demanding general liberal treatment from the Local Government Board.
MR. T. M. HEALYI am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman. Perhaps he will grant a return, as great interest is felt in this matter.