Mr. Samuel dealt in great detail with the finance of
the Bill. If the Irish Government desired to borrow money for national development they would have power to do so. In conclusion, be declared emphatically that it was absolutely untrue to say that the Bill imposed a, new burden of £2,000,000 a year on the British taxpayer. We have dealt elsewhere with the impudent attempt to show that the Bill does not pro- pose to give a subsidy to "Ireland a nation" because Ireland
now shares, as she ought to share while within. the Union, the good .fortune of the richer parts of the United Kingdom. Because a daughter has bad her fair share, or more than her fair share, of the family house the mother is not bound to build her a house for herself, to which no other member of the family will be admitted, and also to keep open her place in
the old house.
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