§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether stoppages made from the pensions of naval and military inmates of Irish district lunatic asylums, on account of the rate in aid, 4s. per head per week, allowed for patients confined therein, are refunded to the Treasury or to the Irish Local Taxation Account, from which latter account the rate in aid is now provided.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) The deductions are retained by the Paymaster-General, and consequently accrue to the benefit of the Exchequer.