§ MR. O'MARA (Kilkenny, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the reward paid to revenue officers for discovery of the illicit still in Scotland in the year 1901, and what was the average reward paid for each discovery of the 2,008 illicit stills in Ireland; whether he will say how many gallons of illicit whisky the revenue officers estimate are produced respectively in Scotland, Ireland, and England; and how many illicit stills were discovered respectively in Ulster, Munster, Leinster, and Connaught.
§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first question is £3 15s. 0d., to the second £1 7s. 9¼d. I cannot give any estimate of the amount of illicit whisky produced. The answer to the last question is—Ulster 241, Munster 8, Leinster 0, Connaught 1,759.