MR. SULLIVANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland, If it is true that the Government intend to forbid by Law in Ireland, whether in public or private schools or otherwise, any element of education or branch of instruction not only permitted but prescribed in the case of English Schools under the Public Education Code?
§ SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, in reply, said, the hon. Member for Louth had so carefully framed his Question, that he was unable to comprehend the exact point to which it was directed. From the varying circumstances of the two countries, both the law and the rules of the Education Department were different in many particulars in England and Ireland. He was not aware that the Irish Government had power to forbid any element of education, his impression being that its duty was to carry out the powers with which the law had invested it.