§ MR. BIGGAR (for Mr. HEALY)asked Mr. Solicitor General for Ireland, If it is a fact that the examination papers for the intermediate examinations held in June 1884 were drawn up and printed several months before the date of these examinations; whether the requirements of the examination would be sufficiently met by giving the examination papers to the printers three weeks before the date of the examinations; what precautions are taken by the Commissioners of Intermediate Education to prevent masters and students from becoming surreptitiously possessed of these papers before the examinations; and, is he aware that at the late Queen's College Commission a Belfast Professor (Queen's College) stated that he was in a position to prove that the examination papers of the Royal University had on a late occasion come into the hands of candidates before the examination?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (MR. WALKER)It is not the fact that the examination papers for the examinations of June, 1884, were drawn up and printed several months be- 599 fore the date of the examinations. They were sent to the printer as close to the examination as was possible to allow of their use. Three weeks would not be a sufficient time to allow. Ample precautions are taken to prevent those papers being got hold of before the examination. It would be inexpedient to divulge the means employed, as it would tend to defeat the precautions taken. I am not aware of such a statement being made as is mentioned in the last paragraph.