§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, seeing that only £800 of the Exchequer and Audit Vote is annually spent in Ireland, he will now take steps to have the Irish audit work done in Dublin, so as to give Ireland her just share of the expenditure under this and subsidiary Votes which approximately amounts to £10,000 per annum.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) I must refer the hon. Member to the Answer given him on this subject by the right hon. Member for West Derbyshire on the 28th February,905,† to which I have nothing to add.
§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he will state the biennial cost of preparing duplicate records in the Dublin Education Office and despatching them to the London
†See (4) Debates, cxli., 1452.744 Audit Office, and the annual cost of the work entailed in Dublin and in London of keeping these duplicate records amended up to date.(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) These records are required because the establishment books in the Dublin Education Department cannot be spared for the inspection of the Comptroller and Auditor-General. The cost entailed by the records would have to be specially calculated by the two Departments, and I see no sufficient reason for calling upon them to undertake the task.