§ MR. FOLEY (Galway, Connemara)I beg to ask the Attorney General for Ireland with regard to the facts that the Boards of National and Intermediate Education and the Senate of the Royal University are so constituted as to include a Catholic element in the proportion of one half, that the higher paid appointments in these institutions follow the same rule, and that this proportion is maintained by the free action of the Executive Government, there being no statutory provision in this respect; whether he is aware that the governing body and office bearers of the Queen's College, Galway, are and have been for some time exclusively Protestant; and whether the Executive will make appointments in Galway on the same principle that obtains in the institutions named above, on the ground that a distinct Ministerial pledge was given in this House that the patronage of the Crown would be so 1676 exercised as to secure, if possible, the services of Catholics in the appointments to Queen's College, Galway?
§ MR. MADDENI must ask the hon. Member to postpone the question, as I have not read the information that would enable me to answer it.