asked the Secretary to the Treasury the amount of the deductions under the different heads made out of Grants to the Kerry County Council for each of the years 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, and 1912, owing to the insolvency of the Local Taxation Account?

No deductions were made from sums payable to the county council of Kerry out of the Local Taxation Account under Section 58 of the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898, by reason of the insufficiency of income of the account prior to the year 1910–11. In that and the following year the amounts so payable were abated to the extent and in respect of the services mentioned in the following table:—

Year.	Medical and Education Expenditure in Unions.			Rural Sanitary Salaries.			Urban Sanitary Salaries.			Railway and Harbour Guarantees.			Pauper Lunatic Graut.
(1)	(2)			(3)			(4)			(5)			(6)
	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.	£.	s.	d.	£.	s.	d.
1910–11	587	14	5	86	3	10	20	15	1	593	13	2	818	11	4
1911–12	317	10	7	45	13	6	10	13	7	604	19	3	854	2	5
Total	905	5	0	131	17	4	31	8	8	1,198	12	5	1,672	13	9

The payments in respect of the expenditure mentioned in columns 2 and 3 are made to the county council on behalf of boards of guardians and rural district councils, respectively; those in respect of the expenditure in column 4 are made to urban district councils, and those in columns 5 and 6 to the county council.