§ Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIENasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is aware that the general council of the Irish county councils and the Catholic archbishops and bishops of Ireland at a meeting in Maynooth have declared the National Insurance Bill, however suitable to an industrial population such as that of Great Britain, to be quite inapplicable and even mischievous in the wholly different circumstances of Ireland; and whether he will defer to the almost unanimous expression of Irish opinion to this effect by excluding Ireland from the operation of the Bill and crediting Ireland with the Treasury contribution which would be payable under the Bill to be disposed of hereafter in a separate Bill or for such other purposes as Irish opinion may determine?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI will refer the hon. Member to my reply to the hon. Member for the Enfield Division to-day.