§ MR. MEAGHERI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the amount of money contributed by the Government to the five unions in county Kilkenny in relief of local taxation respectively for the years ending 1897 and 1905; and also the amount of money raised in rates for the same periods.
MR. BRYCEThe amount of the payments from the Local Taxation Account to the five unions of county Kilkenny was, in 1897, £5,483, and in 1905, £25,394; this latter including £19,565 paid from the agricultural grant. The Local Government Board are unable to state with accuracy the amount which was raised in these unions as county cess in 1897, but they estimate that the amount was about £28,500, which added to the poor rate raised, viz., £28,666, gives a total of £57,166. The amount raised as poor rate in 1905 was £38,114.