§ Mr. FLAVINasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that the ground landlord of Listowel receives £80 from the Government as rent for the police barracks at Listowel; whether he is aware that this ground landlord who owns the barracks has refused for the past nineteen years to pay the town's improvement and sanitary rates to the local authorities; whether he is aware that Lord Listowel's name is in the official list issued annually by the Commissioners of Valuation for £40 for rating purposes for the police barracks; and, if so, will he say why the Local Government Board have not exercised their powers of compelling the local authority to collect the rate?
§ Mr. T. W. RUSSELLThe reply to the first and third parts of the question is in the affirmative. Half annual rents are not liable to assessment for town or sanitary rates, and accordingly the Local Government Board could not with propriety take the action suggested in the last part.