§ MR. LUNDONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland will he say (1) how much money which might have been utilised by the district councils in Ireland in the interests of the agricultural labourers is remaining over from the Local Government (Ireland) Grant; and (2) will this money in the future be applied to the purposes for which it was intended; (3) will he give the names of the various district councils which have exhausted the poundage allowed them under the Labourers Acts to the amount of 10d in the pound; and (4) can he say whether he will make provision in the Labourers Bill at present before the House for supplying the second plots for the labourers in the unions in which the limit of 1s. in the pound on the valuation has been already reached.
§ MR. WYNDHAMIn reply to the first and third inquiries, I refer to the House of Commons Return No. 198 of the Session of 1903. The question of the application of the unexpended balance is 44 under consideration. In answer to the fourth inquiry, it is not proposed to increase the present maximum rating limit, of 1s. in the pound.