§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If he is aware that a resolution was, during the late Recess, adopted at a meeting in Dublin requesting the Government to lay before the House the measure on Irish Intermediate Education promised in Her Most Gracious Majesty's Speech at the beginning of the Session; if he still adheres to his expressed intention of making the introduction of that measure dependent on the progress of the 1594 Irish Grand Jury Amendment Bill; and, if not, on what day he proposes to introduce the Bill; and, whether he will consider the advisability of explaining its main features on the Order of Leave?
§ MR. J. LOWTHERI have received no official communication upon the subject; but my attention has been called, through the ordinary channels of information, to the fact that a meeting was held and a resolution adopted in the sense indicated by the hon. and learned Gentleman. As to whether I still entertain the opinion I expressed upon former occasions—and which I need not repeat now in detail—to the effect that it would be desirable to make some progress with the Grand Jury Bill before entering upon the Intermediate Education Bill, I must say that I still hold the same view; but this and the position of the question generally must, of course, depend upon the state of Public Business generally, which is not at the present moment in such a state as would admit of my entering into any specific engagement as to a day for the introduction of the Bill. With reference to the last part of the hon. and learned Gentleman's Question, as to the advisability of explaining the main features upon the Motion for Leave, I think that it would be advisable, and I shall hope to be able to follow that course.