§ MR. P. A. M'HUGH (Leitrim, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that certain counties and urban 17 districts in Ireland have failed to receive from the Department of Agriculture and Technical Education the full subsidies to which they would have been entitled in 1900 and 1901, if their agricultural and technical education schemes had been approved and in operation in due time; will he advise the Department to earmark, for future allocation to such counties and urban districts, the sums lost to them by their failure, through no fault of their own, to have their agricultural and technical education schemes put in operation at the earliest possible moment; and will he state how the Department will deal with that portion of its revenue which might have been devoted to subsidising agriculture and technical education committees in 1900 and 1901, but was not so expended.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON,) (for Mr. WYNDHAM) Londonderry, N.The Department can only subsidise approved schemes that are put into actual operation. No aid could, therefore, be given to the schemes that were not in force in 1900–1901. The Agriculture and Technical Instruction Act, 1899, provides that money placed at the disposal of the Department, not expended in any financial year, shall be accumulated, and may be expended for the purposes of the Act in any subsequent year.