§ MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)To ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether, considering the delay with the Irish Valuation Committee's proceedings and the fact that a number of witnesses expect to be examined, and that it was expected this Committee would report before further steps would be taken on the Belfast valuation by Sir John Barton, it will be arranged to defer the general valuation in Belfast for another year.
§ (Answered by Mr. Atkinson.) The revaluation lists cannot come into operation in Belfast before April, 1904. There is no intention to postpone beyond that date the enforcement of the revaluation, which has been accepted without appeal by more than seven-eighths of the ratepayers.