§ MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHY (Londonderry)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the successful development of local efforts to improve the organization of the lace industry in those districts of Ireland which are mentioned in the recently-issued Report by Mr. Alan S. Cole on his visits to lace-making centres, sanction has now been communicated by the Treasury to the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, under which the renewal of Mr. Cole's lectures, repeatedly applied for by the centres referred to in the Report, can be granted, so that the applying convents and centres may not, as was the case in March last, be left in doubt up to the last moment as to whether the lectures will be delivered or not; and, in any 871 case, whether the delivery of lectures has been sanctioned for the forthcoming autumn and the spring of next year?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON,) Leeds, N.No sanction has been given for the delivery of further lectures next autumn or in the spring of next year. Practically the whole amount sanctioned for expenses of lectures this year has been already expended, and I must await further information from the Science and Art Department and the Irish Government before the Treasury can decide whether further expenditure should be allowed, to provide for additional lectures.