§ MR. J. MACVEAGHTo ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether he can state the total amount contributed by Ireland in the last financial year to the upkeep of the Navy, and the total value of the Navy contracts placed in Ireland by the Admiralty Office during the same period.
§ (Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) The first part of the Question is a matter for my right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. As regards the second part, the preparation of any statement would involve great clerical labour, and the result would be necessarily incomplete and to some extent misleading.