§ MR. FLYNN(for Mr. HOOPER) (Cork, S.E.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If he can inform the House why the Roman Catholic lady students of the Royal University of Ireland are debarred from the teaching of the Roman Catholic Fellows of the University?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The Secretary of the Royal University reports that the matter referred to does not rest with the Senate, but with the Governing body of the particular College with which the Fellows are connected. A Memorial was received by the Senate, signed by 13 Roman Catholic lady graduates and undergraduates, stating that they had been refused permission to attend the lectures delivered in the University College, Stephen's Green, and asking that some steps should be taken to remove this prohibition. The Senate stated that they had no power to interfere with the arrangements of the Governing Body in question.