§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 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.
§ *MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR)This question must be addressed to the Secretary to the Treasury.