§ Major HORE-BELISHAasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much revenue has been lost to the Exchequer in each year since the creation of the Irish Free State, specifying the estimated amounts under each head of taxation; and what is the estimated saving annually in expenditure which would otherwise have been incurred by the Imperial Government in Southern Ireland, specifying the amount under each of the heads of the expenditure?
Mr. GU I NNESSFigures showing the revenue actually collected by or on behalf48W of the Free State Government, and the expenditure actually incurred by them, during the years in question, are given in various publications of the Free State Government. I am not in a position to form any reliable conjecture as to the revenue which might have been collected, and the expenditure which might have been incurred by the Imperial Government in Southern Ireland since 1921 if the Irish Free State had not been established