§ SIR FREDERICK W. HEYGATEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, When he will state to the House the decision of the Government on the subject of the claims of the Irish National Teachers to an improved position and remuneration; and, whether the promised measure to facilitate the erection of labourers' houses in Ireland will be introduced in time to become Law in the present Session?
THE MARQUESS OF HARTINGTON, in reply, said, the most convenient course would be that he should state the intentions of the Government with respect to the claims of the National School teachers to additional remuneration in moving the Irish Education Vote, which would be done probably at the end of this or the beginning of next week. With regard to labourers' cottages, he was extremely anxious to carry a measure to facilitate their erection, and he was not 557 without hope of being able to introduce it in a short time, so that it might become law during the present Session. He had found the greatest difficulty in the consideration of this question, for, as he understood, it was the desire of many hon. Members that the measure should go considerably beyond that known as Sir William Somerville's Act. Although suggestions had been made very liberally during the debate on the subject, when he came to ask how those suggestions were to be carried out he found that, with the exception of the hon. Baronet himself, hon. Gentlemen were extremely chary in explaining how it was to be done.