§ MR. BIGGAR (Cavan, W.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in cases where teachers from the Irish Government Taining Colleges are received in England and Scotland, he will give credit in Irish Education Accounts for the cost of the education of such teachers; can he explain why the Education Department, after the passing of the Contributory Act, went on increasing the expenditure in Galway model schools, although it received nothing under the Contributory Act, till, in 1878, the cost of educating in the model was greater than the entire costs of maintaining and educating in the workhouse; whether he is aware that the practice of appointing pupil teachers only in model schools causes a very large percentage of the model school pupils to be in the higher classes, in which the fees are higher, than in 436 the lower classes; whether the total cost of the erection of buildings is paid by the State only in the model schools; and, what proportion of the total cost of the model schools was contributed last year from local sources?
§ THE SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. MADDEN) (Dublin University)(who replied) said, he had not time to obtain any Report, and he could not, therefore, give any information on the subject.