HC Deb 29 May 1911 vol 26 c851W
Mr. GINNELL

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in preparation for a just settlement of the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland, he will obtain from the Irish Government Departments and make accessible to hon. Members all the material on which an estimate can be formed of the financial drain from Ireland without return or compensation in the form of rents to absentee landlords since 1853, and in the form of prices to absentee vendors of land since 1884?

Mr. BIRRELL

The Government have no information on which such an estimate could be formed.