§ MR. J. MACVEAGHTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the £1,198,502 stated to be voted by Parliament to the Department of Agriculture during the past seven years includes the endowment fund, and what the amount of the endowment was.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The sum of£1,198,502 referred to in the Question includes, in addition to £185,000 paid over to the Congested Districts Board, a sum of £126,000 (that is, £18,000 a year for the past seven years), which was provided by Parliament under Section 15, Sub-sections (d) and (f), of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction Act of1899. The last-mentioned sum, though provided in the Parliamentary Vote, forms portion of the endowment fund established under that section of the Act. The amount received into the endowment fund in the past seven years, excluding the sum provided in the Vote, was as follows —
| £ | |
| Capital received under Section 15, Sub-sections (c), (e) (g) | 224,644 |
| Annual statutory receipts under Section 15, Sub-sections (a) and(b) | 1,036,000 |
| Received under the Agriculture and Technical Instruction Act, 1902 | 25,000 |
| Received from the Ireland Development Grant for Technical Instruction | 17,500 |
| Received from the Congested Districts Board | 6,000 |
| £1,309,144 |