§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners are aware, in regard to the sale of the estate of C. H. B. Good and another, Kilbrin, County Cork, purchased by the
§ Exchequer if he will state what percentage proportions of revenue derived from direct and indirect taxes, respectively, bear to the total revenues of Ireland and Great Britain taken separately from the latest available figures subsequent to the financial year 1903–4, omitting the figures for the amount contributed per head.
§ (Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The proportions of the total tax revenue derived from direct and indirect taxes respectively in the last four years have been as follows—
§ tenants at twenty-three and a half years purchase on rents graded to second term, that the landlords' solicitor made a mistake, in calculating the purchase interest of Mr. John Nash, Corbally, in not making allowance for the proportionate share of a half-acre cottage plot, with the result that Mr. Nash is overcharged on the payment of the purchase interest; and whether the Commissioners will make the necessary deductions of the amount overpaid before the payment of the next half-year's interest falls due.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners inform me that the holding of John Nash was vested in him on 30th Janurary last. It comprised 223 acres, and the purchase money was £2,295, being 18.7 years purchase of the judicial rent of £122 7s. It appears from the documents lodged in this case that the labourer's plot referred to was not included in the holding purchased by Mr. Nash. The Commissioners have no knowledge as to the manner in which 937 the terms of purchase were arrived at in this particular case, but, in any event, as the holding has been duly vested in the tenant in accordance with the terms of the agreement for purchase signed by him, the Commissioners cannot act in the manner suggested in the Question.