§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he will consider the immediate advisability of assimilating the exceptional Irish scheme of valuation by means of a commissioner and staff with the settled practice and precedent of Great 991 Britain, where local authorities are represented on assessment committees.
(Answered by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.) Proposals for the reform of the existing method of valuation in Great Britain are now under the consideration the Government, and, in the meantime, I think it would be premature to make any statement as to the desirability of assimilating the Irish practice to that which now prevails in the rest of the United Kingdom.